Problems moving my jails (mv: Operation not permitted)

Redd Vinylene reddvinylene at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 20:27:11 UTC 2008


On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:22 PM, George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com> wrote:
> Redd Vinylene writes:
>  > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:02 PM, George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > If you do an ls -lo /home/jail/box/usr/bin/chpass, you'll probably see
>  > > the schg flag set.  Man chflags for more info and instructions on how
>  > > to unset it
>  > >
>  > > g.
>  > >
>  >
>  > Yes:
>  >
>  > -r-sr-xr-x  6 root  wheel  schg 18468 Aug  2 19:47 /usr/jail/box/usr/bin/chpass
>  >
>  > So I'd simply have to "chflags noschg /usr/jail/box/usr/bin/chpass"
>  > and then "cp /usr/jail/box/usr/bin/chpass
>  > /home/jail/box/usr/bin/chpass"?
>
> I think that you ought to be able to cp it as is.  You're just not
> allowed to change the original (e.g. remove it), which is why your mv
> and rm failed.
>
> g.
>

I've been told that changing flags might seriously mess things up. Is
there any way to copy the remaining files from /usr/jail into
/home/jail, or do I have to rebuild everything from scratch?

Much obliged.

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