On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 08:16:25AM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > This is happening on a Redhat 7.2 system, but i think it would apply > across all Linux distros. > > [root@linux1 sbin]# pwd > /usr/sbin > [root@linux1 sbin]# chattr -iu sendmail > [root@linux1 sbin]# rm sendmail > rm: remove `sendmail'? y > rm: cannot unlink `sendmail': Operation not permitted > > [root@linux1 sbin]# ls -al sendmail > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 99161 May 1 01:21 sendmail > > That is happening for all the files in that directory. > > strace rm sendmail: > > lstat64("sendmail", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=99161, ...}) = 0 > access("sendmail", W_OK) = 0 > unlink("sendmail") = -1 EPERM (Operation not > permitted) > > Any ideas as to what may be happening?
nnorman@foo:~ $ mkdir test nnorman@foo:~ $ cd test nnorman@foo:~/test $ touch biff nnorman@foo:~/test $ sudo chattr +i . nnorman@foo:~/test $ lsattr biff -------------- biff nnorman@foo:~/test $ ls -l biff -rw-rw-r-- 1 nnorman nnorman 0 May 23 17:35 biff nnorman@foo:~/test $ rm biff rm: cannot unlink `biff': Permission denied nnorman@foo:~/test $ lsattr -d . ---i---------- . Check the directory. -- Nathan Norman - Micromuse Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gil-galad was an Elven-king. | The Fellowship Of him the harpers sadly sing: | of the last whose realm was fair and free | the Ring between the Mountains and the Sea. | J.R.R. Tolkien
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