Cannot delete stubborn files

[Jack Stone]

>From: Chris Hill <chris at monochrome.org>
>To: Jack Stone <antennex at hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files
>Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 09:39:51 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Jack Stone wrote:
>
>>I have 2 files that resists all efforts to delete them.
>
>[...]
>
>>Here are the files and the error message:
>>rm: local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Hostname.pm: Operation not permitted
>>rm: local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Syslog.pm: Operation not permitted
>
>Make sure the files do not have the system immutable flag set:
>
># chflags noschg local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Hostname.pm
># chflags noschg local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Syslog.pm
>
>...and then see if you can't delete them. I don't know why the flag would 
>be set, but it's something to try.
>
>HTH.
>
>--
>Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org

Chris: Tried that at the very first. No joy!

THX
Jack

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