On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:49:17PM -0600, Seth Hieronymus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem.  When upgrading my openssh-portable, it fails to install
> when it tries to "chmod 0700 /var/empty", which gives the error message:
> Operation not permitted.  The permissions on /var/empty are 0555.  When I
> tried to "rm -rf /var/empty", it fails with the same error message.  My /var
> is linked to /usr/var.  I tried to chmod /usr/var/empty, but no difference.
I
> have stopped almost all of the services running in the background, and lsof
> reports that there aren't any processes using anything in /var/empty.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions to remedy this?

Hmm, sounds like it might be the directory's flags.  Try

# ls -Ldlo /var/empty

and see if the flag "schg" is set.

If so, unset it (chflags -RH noschg /var/empty), make your changes and
reset the flag using "chflags -RH schg /var/empty".

HTH

Dan

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Daniel Bye




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