rm: Operation not permitted
John Pettitt
jpp at cloudview.com
Sat May 6 03:10:04 UTC 2006
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 07:54:07PM -0700, John Pettitt wrote:
>
>> I'm having trouble erasing some files - this on a 6.1RC system (built
>> from -STABLE) - I created a system image using his script:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> make buildworld KERNCONF=CLOCK
>> make buildkernel KERNCONF=CLOCK
>> mkdir -p /raid/diskless/clock
>> make installworld DESTDIR=/raid/diskless/clock
>> cd /usr/src/etc; make distribution DESTDIR=/raid/diskless/clock
>> cd /usr/src
>> make installkernel KERNCONF=CLOCK DESTDIR=/raid/diskless/clock
>>
>> and now when I try to delete it this happens ...
>>
>> # rm -rf clock
>> rm: clock/bin/rcp: Operation not permitted
>> rm: clock/bin: Directory not empty
>> rm: clock/lib/libcrypt.so.3: Operation not permitted
>> rm: clock/lib/libc.so.6: Operation not permitted
>> rm: clock/lib: Directory not empty
>> rm: clock/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Operation not permitted
>> rm: clock/libexec: Directory not empty
>> rm: clock/sbin/init: Operation not permitted
>> rm: clock/sbin: Directory not empty
>>
>> and so on.
>>
>> The system is running at securelevel -1 and the rm fails even in single
>> user mode - what am I missing?
>>
>
> chflags -R noschg
>
> Kris
>
Thanks that did it. Not enough caffeine today.
John
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