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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:49:17 -0600
From:      "Seth Hieronymus" <sethh@principia.edu>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   permissions problem with /var/empty
Message-ID:  <OE1166figCZrWkmNHQF00029b5d@hotmail.com>

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Hello,

I have a problem.  When upgrading my openssh-portable, it fails to install
when it tries to "chmod 0700 /var/empty", which gives the error message:
Operation not permitted.  The permissions on /var/empty are 0555.  When I
tried to "rm -rf /var/empty", it fails with the same error message.  My /var
is linked to /usr/var.  I tried to chmod /usr/var/empty, but no difference.  I
have stopped almost all of the services running in the background, and lsof
reports that there aren't any processes using anything in /var/empty.

Anyone have any suggestions to remedy this?

Thanks in advance,
Seth Hieronymus

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