Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
On Hai, 17 Giªng 2000, 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???
Have you checked the immutability bit with chattr, try a chattr -i
fonts. But it looks like your hard drive is corrupted, I'd fsck it
before trying to remove the directory/file.
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Ashley Clark
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