On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:39:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Don't feel too bad, it's one of my favourite geeky Unix trivia factoid
questions. In 10 years, no-one yet has given the correct answer
immediately!
You need to ask better people :P
It's also very rare to have a file owned by root in
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Yuri K. Shatroff yks-...@yandex.ru wrote:
The owner of a directory is able to delete any files in it. It would really
be weird otherwise.
I think, to be more precise, anybody with write and execute access to
a directory (whether the owner or not) can remove
13.02.2015 17:31, Alan Mackenzie пишет:
Hi, Gentoo.
I'm clearing out dross from my home directory, as me (not as root) and
I've just deleted this file:
-rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 0 Apr 11 2011 grep
, simply by typing $ rm grep. I was prompted with:
rm: remove
On 13/02/2015 16:31, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo.
I'm clearing out dross from my home directory, as me (not as root) and
I've just deleted this file:
-rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 0 Apr 11 2011 grep
, simply by typing $ rm grep. I was prompted with:
rm: remove
On 14/02/2015 00:05, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Trust me, there is no arguing with this - Unix has always worked this
way and likely always will.
:-) I ask myself, how come I've got this far without learning this
pretty basic fact?
Thanks for the explanation.
:-)
Don't feel too bad, it's
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