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Date:      Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:31:07 +0700
From:      Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Unable to delete file
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.20011002103107.007ae580@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>

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I have a strange problem. I have a small LAN using Samba. I have a public
share on my FreeBSD server, at /home/public, that I use for documents that
must be made available to everybody. A couple of days ago I posted an
Excell worksheet for the teachers to use in submitting their end-of-term
grades. Today I tried to modify it and got the message "being modified by
Roger Merritt: would you like to open as Read Only?" The problem is I'm not
modifying it. So I tried to delete it; no soap.

So I went to the console, logged on and su'ed and tried to delete it. No
dice. So I tried 'ls -lo', but no flags are set. Then I tried 'fstat -f
/home/public', no files open from that directory. Tried again, 'cd
/home/public; rm -f GradeSht.xls', and again I get "rm: GradeSht.xls:
Permission denied". Permission denied!!! I am ROOT -- resistance is futile!
Except it's not. I'm stymied. Oh, yeah, thinking my securelevel might have
gotten changed I tried 'syscontrol kern.securelevel' and got -1, the
default value, which it should be.

What can I try next? I've tried searching the archives and haven't found
anything yet.
-- 
Roger


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