From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 14:34: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.gte.net (smtp2.gte.net [207.115.153.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B02614FE9 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:33:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phbrown@gte.net) Received: from gte.net (1Cust177.tnt29.sfo3.da.uu.net [208.255.80.177]) by smtp2.gte.net with ESMTP for ; id QAA06886 Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:33:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <379CD428.64C53F37@gte.net> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:33:28 -0700 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win98; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tech Support Subject: Superuser not permitted to chmod on his own files Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying some changes to get FreeBSD to recognise my sound board, and I don't want to leave the kernel I just built as the default. I leave /kernel.GENERIC in place but I wanted to delete the new /kernel and rename /kernel.old to /kernel, in other words get rid of the newly built kernel. All three of the files are 555 root wheel, as they should be, but I can't delete /kernel. I even tried to chmod o+w /kernel but I get a message that it is not allowed! And as root, I OWN the **** thing! Why is this happening, and how can I get around it? I was able to do this very operation the last time I rebuilt the kernel on this same release. What is happening? PB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message