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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!purdue!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!not-for-mail From: pauld@umbc.edu (Paul Danckaert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unable to rename kernel Date: 6 Dec 1996 19:07:46 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lines: 28 Message-ID: <58acgi$9ss@umbc7.umbc.edu> References: <589otu$o5g@umbc7.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: f-umbc7.umbc.edu NNTP-Posting-User: pauld Ok, somebody was nice enough to mail me about this.. using chflags I was able to make the file writable and moveable again... paul In article <589otu$o5g@umbc7.umbc.edu>, Paul Danckaert <pauld@umbc.edu> wrote: > >Greetings, > >I have run into an interesting problem on one of my FreeBSD 2.1.5 boxes. >For some reason, the kernel has permissions: > >-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 881526 Nov 11 14:33 /kernel > >I am unable to chmod it, chown it, or mv it to any other name. I tried >booting off of the new kernel I want to use, and then doing it, without >success. I even tried booting the fixit floppy and doing it within there >with no luck. This is fairly odd.. any ideas on how I can get this kernel >out of the way? > >Thanks, >paul