Override prompt when deleting a file

[Kevin Kinsey]

Robert Ftizpatrick wrote:

>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
>  
>

see chflags(1).  Most likely it is.  If you really want the file gone,
(as root*):

#chflags noschg massage.xls
#rm massage.xls

HTH,

KDK

*admin is _also_ a UID 0 account?  Seems that could be dangerous?