Override prompt when deleting a file

Robert Fitzpatrick lists at webtent.net
Fri Nov 18 15:11:48 GMT 2005


On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 09:51 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Robert Ftizpatrick <robert at webtent.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm logged in to my FreeBSD 5.2.1 box as 'admin' via ssh, why would I
> > receive this override prompt?
> > 
> > -bash-2.05b$ ls -la massage.xls
> > -rw-r--r--  1 admin  admin  4463104 Aug 29 17:25 massage.xls
> > -bash-2.05b$ rm massage.xls
> > override rw-r--r--  admin/admin for massage.xls?
> 
> Check the permissions on the directory?
> _______________________________________________

Yes, I did...

-bash-2.05b$ ls -la
total 460441
drwxr-xr-x  18 admin  admin       1024 Nov 18 08:38 .
drwxr-xr-x   5 admin  admin        512 Jan  4  2005 ..

--
Robert



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