From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 1 1:29: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE3BF37BDAF for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 01:29:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marki@paradise.net.nz) Received: from evileye (203-79-68-65.apx0.paradise.net.nz [203.79.68.65]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id e718SlX14223; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:28:47 +1200 (NZST) Message-ID: <002c01bffb92$80194540$0101a8c0@rf.org> From: "Mark Ibell" To: "net admin" , References: <20000729162707.A8150@almazs.pacex.net> Subject: Re: make installworld fails to rm: /sys (not permited) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:28:40 +1200 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 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: net admin To: Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 11:27 AM Subject: make installworld fails to rm: /sys (not permited) > Hi Folks; > I am trying to make installworld and I get error: > > cd /; rm -f /sys; ln -s /usr/src/sys sys > rm: /sys: Operation not permited > > Error ... > > I did: chflags -R noschg /sys > and I still get the error also I am running at kern_securelevel=-1 > to do the make installworld. Symbolic links do not have 'flags' so there is no reason why rm -f /sys (as root) should fail. Is /sys still is a symbolic link on your system? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message