From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 01:40:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA09790 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 01:40:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpha.delta.edu (alpha.delta.edu [161.133.129.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA09749 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 01:40:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dakott@alpha.delta.edu) Received: from pm332-01.dialip.mich.net by alpha.delta.edu; (5.65v3.0/1.1.8.2/06Jan97-0932AM) id AA09451; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 04:42:58 -0500 Received: from kott.my.domain (dakott@kott.my.domain [192.168.0.1]) by kott.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00281 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:08:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:08:21 -0500 (EST) From: David Kott To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Cannot rm a file, even as "root", under -stable Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am really perplexed. I just cannot seem to delete the file /usr/chfn. Here is a dialog of my embrassingly ignorant attempts: root@kott [/usr/bin]# rm chfn override r-sr-xr-x root/bin schg for chfn? y rm: chfn: Operation not permitted root@kott [/usr/bin]# chmod u+w chfn chmod: chfn: Operation not permitted root@kott [/usr/bin]# chown root:wheel chfn chown: chfn: Operation not permitted root@kott [/usr/bin]# whoami root root@kott [/usr/bin]# groups wheel kmem sys tty operator bin staff guest root@kott [/usr/bin]# mount | grep "/usr" /dev/wd2s1e on /usr (local, noatime) root@kott [/usr/bin]# lsof | grep chfn root@kott [/usr/bin]# Can someone.. anyone...give me, or perhaps lend me a clue on how to remove this pesky file? I think I failed to renew my clue subscription... I am running: FreeBSD FreeBSD 2.2.6-BETA #0: Sun Mar 22 22:44:22 EST 1998 Ignorantly yours, -d The Fourth Law of Programming: Anything that CAN go wrong wi /kernel: pid 128 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message