From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 15:16:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 230CF37B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:16:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from m315-mp1-cvx1b.gui.ntl.com ([62.252.9.59]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001031231625.OSCR5562.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@m315-mp1-cvx1b.gui.ntl.com>; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:16:25 +0000 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:18:44 +0000 (GMT) From: George Reid X-Sender: geeorgy@sobek.nevernet.net To: leoric@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Permission problem In-Reply-To: <39FF4F0F.5DDDA5B9@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 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? That is the default permission for the kernel. That alone does not prevent you moving/deleting the kernel file. The file attributes are preventing you from doing this. You need to do: chflags noschg first. Read man chflags(1). G --- "And then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train, comin' your way." George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message