From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 28 05:10:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA28158 for current-outgoing; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 05:10:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA28144 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 05:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA00273; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 05:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970928050916.54436@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 05:09:16 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Bob Bishop Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make world failure References: <342DE052.FE793D33@nconnect.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Bob Bishop on Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 11:33:56AM +0100 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bob Bishop scribbled this message on Sep 28: > Actually, I cd to /usr/obj and rm -rf *. It refuses to remove several leaf > files, citing "Operation not permitted" (errno 1 I assume). But I'm root! this is usually because a file has the schng flag set on it... you must first clear this flag before you can remove the file, this includes root users... and in -current there is also a flag that prevents removal of a file (but still lets you modify it)... ttyl.. -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD