Re: rm: cannot unlink `sendmail': Operation not permitted

[Peter Billson <pete@elbnet.com>]

try chattr -i /usr/sbin

Even if sendmail is set -i, if the directory is immutable you will not
be able to rm it.

Pete
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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?
> 
> Sincerely,
> Jason
> 
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