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Re: A wierd file....
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.