From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 18 18:34:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 779CA16A420 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:34:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from smtpout1.ywave.com (ycomradius.yelmtel.com [216.227.100.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A2D243D55 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:34:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: (qmail 24061 invoked by uid 502); 18 Nov 2005 18:34:11 -0000 Received: from dsl28217.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.115.217) by 0 with SMTP; 18 Nov 2005 18:34:11 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.115.217 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl28217.ywave.com Message-ID: <437E1EA2.40803@ywave.com> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:34:10 -0800 From: Micah User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051112) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Ftizpatrick References: <1132321525.30630.3.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <44wtj6m2kz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <1132326705.30630.7.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <437E1478.8040501@oxygen.az> <437DFA2F.6090205@ywave.com> <1132330095.30630.16.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <437E01C9.50209@daleco.biz> <1132335171.30630.23.camel@columbus.webtent.org> In-Reply-To: <1132335171.30630.23.camel@columbus.webtent.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tofik Suleymanov , Lowell Gilbert , FreeBSD Subject: Re: Override prompt when deleting a file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:34:17 -0000 Robert Ftizpatrick wrote: > On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 10:31 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > >>>>>>>>I'm logged in to my FreeBSD 5.2.1 box as 'admin' via ssh, why would I >>>>>>>>receive this override prompt? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>-bash-2.05b$ ls -la massage.xls >>>>>>>>-rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 4463104 Aug 29 17:25 massage.xls >>>>>>>>-bash-2.05b$ rm massage.xls >>>>>>>>override rw-r--r-- admin/admin for massage.xls? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Check the permissions on the directory? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>-bash-2.05b$ ls -la >>>>>>total 460441 >>>>>>drwxr-xr-x 18 admin admin 1024 Nov 18 08:38 . >>>>>>drwxr-xr-x 5 admin admin 512 Jan 4 2005 .. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>>To original poster: is the immutable bit set on the file? >>>> >>>> >>> >>>I don't believe so...is this how you tell? >>> >>>-bash-2.05b$ ls -lo massage.xls >>>-rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin - 4463104 Aug 29 17:25 massage.xls >>> >>> >> >>see chflags(1). Most likely it is. If you really want the file gone, >>(as root*): >> >>#chflags noschg massage.xls >>#rm massage.xls >> > > > I'm sure I can make it happen. My problem is the rsync backup everynight > fails to delete this and other files like it saying 'Permission denied'. > So, I am assuming it is because of this issue. The rsync script logs in > as admin. How can I resolve this? > > -- > Robert If you clear the immutable bit (as root), rsync (as admin) should be able to remove the file as normal. You'll just have to figure out why the files are immutable in the first place. You may just be able to clear the immutable bit on all the files and make the problem go away or you may need a more complex solution. HTH, Micah