Cannot remove old log files

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-01-08 21:57, Paulino Calderon <paulino.calderon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
> I am currently moving to a new log administration policy, the problem
> is that there are some old logs that I would like to delete but I
> can't, the error is the typical "Operation not permitted" although I
> am trying to do this as root, the file's permissions are ok and there
> are no special file flag activated or anything, any ideas?
>
> suckea# uname -a
> FreeBSD suckea.com 5.3-SECURITY FreeBSD 5.3-SECURITY #0: Wed Jul 20
> 06:22:23 UTC 2005
> root at builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
> mybox# ls -lo
> [snip]
> -rwx------  1 root  wheel  -      78 Dec  6 15:00 auth.log.zzpKVF1
> -rwx------  1 root  wheel  -      78 Jan  3 05:00 auth.log.zzr4dZD
> -rwx------  1 root  wheel  -      78 Jan  4 17:00 auth.log.zzyP5R0
>
> mybox# rm -rf auth.log.*
> [snip]
> rm: auth.log.zzr4dZD: Operation not permitted
> rm: auth.log.zzyP5R0: Operation not permitted

Is the partition mounted read-write?

Can you run ktrace on this command and post the output?