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Re: A wierd file....
Hmm.. i guess i should have mantioned before.... i fixed it about 10
minutes after mailing this mail... always happends to me..
yeah.. there's is a util named chattr which changes the attribute of files
to a totaly read only and some how that was the case for this file...
anyhow.. thanks for your help....
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Yaron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Sharon Tal wrote:
>
> > i have something really wierd going on....
> > i have this file:
> >
> > -rwsr-sr-x 1 merav users 273360 Jun 7 13:37 login*
> >
> > and i just can't erase it! it tells me: "rm: login: Operation not
> > permitted". file mode 6755.
>
> In addition to what other people have said, the ext2 filesystem has a way
> of making a file _really_ read-only. So rm won't erase it.
>
> That login program, though, looks bad. does 'file login' say it's an i386
> ELF/glibc/whatever binary? Can yu copy it t a machine you don't really
> need and run it? (;
>
>
> Bye,
>
> -Yaron.
>
>
>