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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, David Jenkins wrote:

>
> I have also tried:
>
> # chflags noschg empty/
> chflags: empty/: Operation not permitted
> chflags: empty/: Operation not permitted
>
> # chmod -R 0700 empty/
> chmod: empty/: Operation not permitted
>
> Please could someone point me in the right direction with this.

You raised the security level. Immutable flag can't be removed if
securelevel > 0.

Boot into single user mode, then chflags noschg empty/


		Fer