Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

[Todd Suess <tsuess@inspace.net>]

Use lsattr and check the attributes on the file, if is is listed as type
i (imutable) for example, you will not be able to remove the file unless
you use chattr and remove the attribute first.

Regards,

Todd



At 12:57 PM 1/17/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote:

> Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory
> but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had
> weird permissions:
>
>         c---r-----   1 8224     10280     49, 117 Dec  1  2031 fonts
>
> Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes
> ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f.
> I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the
> only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted.
>
> Any suggestions???
>
> Ron
>
>
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