On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > On 21 Oct 2002, Russell Johns wrote: > > > 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]$ > > > > What does "lsattr rcj.iso" show? If there's an "i" in the mode then it > means that superuser has made the file immutable and "chattr -i rcj.iso" > by superuser is the only way you're going to be able to delete it. actually, just based on the error message, it can't be a lsattr issue. if you try to remove a file from a directory on which you have no write permission, the error message will read: rm: cannot remove `blah': Permission denied. OTOH, if it's been "chattr'ed" to be immutable, then what you should see is rm: cannot remove 'blah': Operation not permitted. someone with too much time on their hands, rday -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
