Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:53:03 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Jack Stone" <antennex@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files Message-ID: <447j3wzwuo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY106-F18B37F868BCB9A7ABAE478CC970@phx.gbl> (Jack Stone's message of "Sun, 04 Jun 2006 10:57:00 -0500") References: <BAY106-F18B37F868BCB9A7ABAE478CC970@phx.gbl>
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"Jack Stone" <antennex@hotmail.com> writes: >>From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> >>To: Jack Stone <antennex@hotmail.com> >>CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files >>Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 09:39:51 -0400 (EDT) >> >>On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Jack Stone wrote: >> >>>I have 2 files that resists all efforts to delete them. >> >>[...] >> >>>Here are the files and the error message: >>>rm: local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Hostname.pm: Operation not permitted >>>rm: local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Syslog.pm: Operation not permitted >> >>Make sure the files do not have the system immutable flag set: >> >># chflags noschg local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Hostname.pm >># chflags noschg local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Syslog.pm >> >> ...and then see if you can't delete them. I don't know why the flag >> would be set, but it's something to try. >> >>HTH. >> >>-- >>Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > > Chris: Tried that at the very first. No joy! There are other flags. Use "ls -lo" to see if any are set, rather trying to reset them and then retrying the delete command.
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