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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:02:17 +0100
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   rebuilding world - is "chflags -R noschg *" necessary?
Message-ID:  <20100923110216.GA1861@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>

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The fbsd manual states in section 24.7 Rebuilding "world":
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html

in subsection 24.7.6 Remove /usr/obj

*quote*
Some files below /usr/obj may have the immutable flag set (see chflags(1) for more information) which must be removed first.

# cd /usr/obj
# chflags -R noschg *
*end quote*

I've never seen a file under /usr/obj/ with immutable flag set.

Why would there be object files with immutable flag set?
Is this step really necessary?

many thanks
anton

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