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From: efinley@efinley.com (Elliot Finley)
To: leoric@home.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Permission problem
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:14:47 GMT
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If you are root, you should be able to override it.  If it still
doesn't let you move or delete the old kernel, then you probably have
the kernel securelevel set too high.

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:00:31 -0600, leoric@home.com wrote:

>I posted this question earlier but, let me better explain my problem. I
>am unable to install a new kernel because the permissions on /kernel
>somehow became -r-xr-xr-x. I am unable to move or delete the old kernel
>file. How am I supposed to do this as root without write permission to
>the file?
>
>
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