Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
i suggest running an e2fsck on the drive there may be errors in the
filesystem
nate
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:
ron >
ron >Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory
ron >but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had
ron >weird permissions:
ron >
ron > c---r----- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts
ron >
ron >Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes
ron >ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f.
ron >I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the
ron >only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted.
ron >
ron >Any suggestions???
ron >
ron >Ron
ron >
ron >
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ron >
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