Subject: RE: unable to delete file?
From: James Zuelow (jamesz@ideafamilies.org)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 08:39:02 AKDT
> -----Original Message-----
> The ls -l line looks like this:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 enderak users 0 Jul 9 22:25 test
>
> I did notice that for some reason it says July 9, but it was created on
> July 15, and I know the date is set correctly on my system.
>
> When I try to delete it I get "rm: cannot unlink `test': Operation not
> permitted" and when I try to chmod +w it I get "chmod: changing
> permissions of `test': Operation not permitted"
>
> The filesystem is ext3.
>
> Anyknow what might have happened, and how I could get rid of this file?
> It's not like it's taking up space, but it's still annoying! :)
Assuming you're doing this as the enderak user (or root) try:
chattr -i test
rm test
Off the top of my head the only thing I can think of is that the file was
set to immutable for some reason. (I set my config files to immutable on
SuSE boxes so that I don't have to worry about YaST2 editing them without my
consent.)
Cheers,
James
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