Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:30:56 -0600 From: "Seth Hieronymus" <sethh@principia.edu> To: <dan@slightlystrange.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: permissions problem with /var/empty Message-ID: <OE57ieuGv8XQViddWcn000117c3@hotmail.com> References: <OE79yGevLUYaK8P3Pfb00029f0a@hotmail.com>
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Daniel Bye wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:49:17PM -0600, Seth Hieronymus wrote: > > 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? > > Hmm, sounds like it might be the directory's flags. Try > > # ls -Ldlo /var/empty > > and see if the flag "schg" is set. > > If so, unset it (chflags -RH noschg /var/empty), make your changes and > reset the flag using "chflags -RH schg /var/empty". > > HTH > > Dan Thanks, that did the trick. Seth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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