Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:04:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Charlie Root <root@rhiannon.scsn.net> To: black@MR.Net (Ben Black) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: can't delete rcp Message-ID: <199607160404.AAA11865@rhiannon.scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <199607160253.VAA14587@galileo.mr.net> from Ben Black at "Jul 15, 96 09:53:26 pm"
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> ok, i'm feeling really stupid for this one...
>
> slowburn: {1} whoami
> root
> slowburn: {2} rm rcp
> override r-sr-xr-x root/bin schg for rcp? y
> rm: rcp: Operation not permitted
> slowburn: {3} chmod 0755 rcp
> chmod: rcp: Operation not permitted
> slowburn: {4} mv rcp rcp.bak
> mv: rename rcp to rcp.bak: Operation not permitted
>
>
> i tried unlinking the thing, cat /dev/null onto it...what simple thing am i missing?
Try this:
slowburn: chflags noschg rcp ; rm rcp
Naturally, you'll have to be root to do this.
It would probably be a good idea to 'man chflags', too...
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