Re: gzip dpkg error

["Ryan O" <debian@seahat.com>]

> On 2002.05.15 18:30 Ryan O wrote:
>> I was trying to perform maintance to a system recently but as you will
>> see
>> below I was not successful.
>> For some reason I am unable to do anything to the /bin/gzip file in
>> the
>> system (delete, move, whatever).  I even tried a chattr to clear any
>> flags
>> that might prevent its deletion, with no success.
>
> Have you tried running lsof to determine if there are any opened .gz
> files (not sure if this would prevent modification of /bin/gzip or not)
>  ?
> Ian
I do not belive that to be the case.  Doesn't linux make a link to the
inode when a file is open, and if you delete the file it wont delete the
inode until all links are gone, or am I totally off my rocker? (i checked
inode links already)

Ryan



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