Override prompt when deleting a file

Robert Fitzpatrick lists at webtent.net
Fri Nov 18 15:58:44 GMT 2005


On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 17:50 +0000, Tofik Suleymanov wrote:
> >>>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 ..
> >

> add alias ls 'ls -f' to shell startup script

And what does this do?

--
Robert



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