From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 28 13: 7: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0580037B403 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:07:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brigg@flatlan.net) Received: (qmail 68760 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2001 20:07:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cobalt) ([64.81.100.136]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Jun 2001 20:07:02 -0000 Message-ID: <003b01c1000d$e5766140$02000a0a@desertflora.com> From: "Brigg Angus" To: Subject: somewhat interesting rm issue Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:07:02 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 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 I'm wondering if there's a way to rm a file that cannot be deleted by any of the regular methods. For instance, I had copied the contents of the Win98 SE reskit over from the Win98 CD to my home directory via Windows98/Samba. In trying to remove the reskit directory, one file, .nmH7Kghj could not be removed. I can successfully change the name (changed too "blah"), I can change the contents (file had an original size of 0 bytes), "chmod 777 blah" works fine (although there have been issues with it automatically reverting to chmod 655 here and there, with no reason I can divine), "unlink blah" does not work, "rm -rf blah" does not work, "chflags nouunlnk blah" does not work. When I rm or rm -rf the file there is no error message, but the file remains. "ls -ol blah" has yielded both, -rw-r-xr-x 1 777 brigg - 13 Jun 27 21:31 blah -rwxrwxrwx 1 777 brigg - 13 Jun 27 21:31 blah Running 4.3-stable Any ideas on what may be causing this, or a solution, would be appreciated. Brigg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message