On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:53:43PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > it is complaining that it is unable to unlink or rename / delete the > iptables file in /sbin
try "lsattr /sbin/iptables". If that shows a "i" flag, use chattr to switch it off. If this works, it would appear that someone set it that way intentionally, because AFAIK this is not the default. That would then indicate that you were not the original administrator of the system. I assume you inherited this machine. > is this because iptable sis still running or what may be the reason. > regards That's not a problem in Unix. You can delete an executable file that is currently "running". Hope this helps. Sita
