On 11Feb2009 08:23, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 21:41 -0700, Kirk wrote: | > I installed a tarball and then discovered I didn't need it. I tried to | > delete the director & files but permission gets denied. I tried to | > chmod but it wouldn't work on the files or directory. I checked the | > permissions which said I'm not the owner & can't change them. | | If you're not the owner then you must have been superuser when you did | the installation (or you were logged in as a different user). In any | case, become that user again using 'su' and proceed. On several UNIX platforms it's possible to give files away, and a tar unpack quite often preserves the ownerships from inside the tar archive, even as non-root. I'm fairly sure I've had this happen to me on Linux, and so it's quite possible he wasn't root during the unpack. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
