From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 20 16:11:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA03599 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 16:11:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rosie.scsn.net (scsn.net [206.25.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA03594 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 16:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cola115.scsn.net ([206.25.247.115]) by rosie.scsn.net (Post.Office MTA v3.0 release 0121 ID# 0-32322U5000L100S10000) with ESMTP id AAA169; Tue, 20 May 1997 19:04:02 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by cola115.scsn.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00803; Tue, 20 May 1997 19:11:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970520191059.12189@cola115.scsn.net> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 19:10:59 -0400 From: "Donald J. Maddox" To: Bryce Newall Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Here's a good one for ya Reply-To: dmaddox@scsn.net References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.74 In-Reply-To: ; from Bryce Newall on Tue, May 20, 1997 at 03:41:44PM -0700 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 03:41:44PM -0700, Bryce Newall wrote: > I'm logged into my system as root, and trying to delete some files. I'm > trying to figure out why on earth it won't let me: > > [55]root@voyager:/usr/bin # rm yp* > override r-sr-xr-x root/bin schg for ypchfn? y > rm: ypchfn: Operation not permitted > override r-sr-xr-x root/bin schg for ypchpass? y > rm: ypchpass: Operation not permitted > override r-sr-xr-x root/bin schg for ypchsh? y > rm: ypchsh: Operation not permitted > override r-sr-xr-x root/bin schg for yppasswd? y > rm: yppasswd: Operation not permitted > > Heck, I'm root for goodness sake... any ideas? Thanks! Try: # chflags noschg # rm -- Donald J. Maddox (dmaddox@scsn.net)