Override prompt when deleting a file

Robert Ftizpatrick robert at webtent.com
Fri Nov 18 16:08:17 GMT 2005


On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 07:58 -0800, Micah 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?
> >> -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 ..
> >>
> To original poster: is the immutable bit set on the file?

I don't believe so...is this how you tell?

-bash-2.05b$ ls -lo massage.xls
-rw-r--r--  1 admin  admin  - 4463104 Aug 29 17:25 massage.xls

--
Robert



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