Can't delete a file

Alex Zbyslaw xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Thu May 19 01:57:54 PDT 2005


Erik Trulsson wrote:

>On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:18:36AM +0200, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote:
>  
>
>>i deleted the folder it was installed into but there are some files  
>>that i can't delete, for instance this one:
>>
>>-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    18K Mar 26 06:58 rcp*
>>
>>i can't even delete it as root:
>>
>># rm -rf rcp
>>rm: rcp: Operation not permitted
>>
>>can anyone tell me how to get rid of it?
>>    
>>
>
>chflags noschg rcp
>rm -rf rcp
>
>Do a 'man chflags' for more information about the file flags.
>  
>
And look at the -o option to ls.

--Alex



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