From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 20:31:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F38C537B401 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 20:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tulip ([203.151.134.104]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA25862 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:30:58 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20011002103107.007ae580@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> X-Sender: mcrogerm@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:31:07 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Roger Merritt Subject: Unable to delete file Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message