H- forgive my ignorance, but I'm not understanding whats going wrong here ... essentially a large file that I own I can't delete... why do I not have permission to delete this file??? [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ chmod 777 rcj.iso [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ ls -l total 423972 -rwxrwxrwx 1 rcj xcdroast 433717248 Oct 21 10:39 rcj.iso [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ chown rcj.rcj rcj.iso [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm -f rcj.iso rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ -- Russell Johns D-10 Nuclear Systems Design and Analysis Group Los Alamos National Laboratory e-mail: johns@lanl.gov Ph: 505-667-6015 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list