From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 23:59:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alaska.net (kitsune.nwc.alaska.net [209.112.130.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E0A37B406 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 23:59:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Hobbes.sodorline.home (10-pm3.jdc.alaska.net [209.112.136.10]) by alaska.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA29569; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:59:43 -0800 (AKDT) Received: from Spiff (unknown [192.168.0.63]) by Hobbes.sodorline.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5191E5E2; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:59:27 -0800 (AKDT) Message-ID: <008c01c14b0f$c1a82760$3f00a8c0@sodorline.home> From: "james" To: "Roger Merritt" Cc: References: <3.0.6.32.20011002103107.007ae580@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> Subject: Re: Unable to delete file Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:58:52 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Merritt" > 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 Whoops! Sorry. Your original post got to me after the reply - I didn't see this part. Sorry for the lame advice to do something you've already done. Did you try to chflags nouchg GradeSht.xls just to see if it would work? I don't know why it would if ls -lo doesn't show a flag set, but one thing to try. (or noschg) Cheers, James Z. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message