Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interestingly the permissions now indicate that you as a normal user could > write to the file. What happens if you, not as root, try to edit the file? > Then save it and look at its permissions again? Also can you as a normal user > del it. > > ?--xr-Srw- > ^ > | a normal user might be able to delete it?
Don't forget it's the directory permissions that determines whether you can delete a file, not the file permissions. I would guess the file system has been mounted ro because of errors. running 'mount' would confirm, and checking dmesg and /var/log/syslog -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
