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Date:      Sun, 25 Oct 1998 22:33:06 -0800
From:      "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
To:        Brian Tiemann <btman@ugcs.caltech.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't delete files as root?
Message-ID:  <19981025223306.D1581@best.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810252213520.11428-100000@lionking.org>; from Brian Tiemann on Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 10:16:33PM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810252213520.11428-100000@lionking.org>

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On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 10:16:33PM -0800, Brian Tiemann <btman@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> 
> 	Hi-- another random question...
> 
> 	After doing a make aout-to-elf, I found that some of the files in
> my /usr/obj directory were stuck there so hard I couldn't even remove them
> with paint thinner and a spatula.
> 
> rm: aout/usr/src/tmp/usr/lib/aout/libc.so.3.1: Operation not permitted
> rm: aout/usr/src/tmp/usr/lib/aout/libc_r.so.3.0: Operation not permitted
> 
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  493850 Oct 19 12:39 libc.so.3.1
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  547350 Oct 19 12:39 libc_r.so.3.0
> 
> 	So how come I can neither chmod nor remove these files, even as
> root?
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
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	do "ls -lo" on those files... see the file flags? yeah.. 
% man chflags

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