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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
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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 ]]
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