On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 10:41:09AM -0600, 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. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks. > > --ken
This is probably a problem with the ext2fs attributes. Take a look at lsattr(1) and chattr(1). Hope this helps. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .