From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 9: 4:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35DA37B409 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:04:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-4-cust210.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.10.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C74643E9C for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:04:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 180lEY-000PuX-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 17:04:50 +0100 Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 17:04:50 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file... Message-ID: <20021013160450.GA5079@submonkey.net> References: <005801c272d0$fab6c040$1500a8c0@dogbert> <3DA99893.3000304@attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DA99893.3000304@attbi.com> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:00:19AM -0700, paul wrote: > Brian McCann wrote: > >No go...here's the listing for the file...here's what happens... > > > >-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 64924 Sep 2 15:24 > > > >rm " " > >rm: remove write-protected file ` '? y > >rm: cannot unlink ` ': Operation not permitted > > > >Any other ideas? > > I assume you did this as root/sudo? Strange that it's setuid . . . . Yes, I would be extremely suspicious of where that setuid/setgid nearly invisible file came from if I were you. Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message