From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 15: 3:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE281150DE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:03:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA16465; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:00:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:00:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Parker Brown Cc: Tech Support Subject: Re: Superuser not permitted to chmod on his own files In-Reply-To: <379CD428.64C53F37@gte.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG man chflags On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Parker Brown wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message