On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: > Hello, > > I remember seeing something about this on the list awhile back, > but I haven't been able to find it in the archives. > > I have a file that has somehow been commandeered by an undefined > group, and I can't seem to remove, move, or change its ownership: > > leisure# ls -l fstobdf > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 65535 29640 Oct 17 23:58 fstobdf > rm: remove `fstobdf', overriding mode 0755? y > rm: fstobdf: Operation not permitted > leisure# chown root.root fstobdf > chown: fstobdf: Operation not permitted > leisure# rm fstobdf > leisure# mv fstobdf fstobdf.1 > mv: cannot move `fstobdf' to `fstobdf.1': Operation not permitted > > I have no idea how the file's ownership got this way, or how to > remove it. I haven't tried going to single-user mode yet; I'm on > a remote connection to this box.
If it's an ext2 filesystem, you could check out the commands chattr and lsattr. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
