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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!pasteur.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with 2.2-960130-SNAP Date: 12 Feb 1996 10:28:28 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4fn4oc$pcc@sidhe.vtcom.fr> References: <ngsxXaw@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.vtcom.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <ngsxXaw@quack.kfu.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote: > /sbin-. All of it went except /sbin-/init. I was finally forced to > use clri to vaporise it. Does /sbin/init get some sort of special > treatment? Yes, some executables have the "immutable" bit set. It is a special flag that "locks" the file (no writes, no delete). You have to "chflags noschg" the file before. [[ cc'ed to Nick ]] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-