On 5/25/2012 4:01 PM, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
On 05/25/12 14:21, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
something I'm not seeing
I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up.
What's the key to removing /var/empty?
280 /hd1/var#sysctl kern.securelevel
kern.securelevel: -1
281 /hd1/var#ls -l
total 4
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 3 00:55 empty
282 /hd1/var#chflags noschg empty
283 /hd1/var#chmod 777 empty
chmod: empty: Operation not permitted
284 /hd1/var#rmdir empty
rmdir: empty: Operation not permitted
Interesting, I just tried this on my home system (FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE)
and it worked as intended. I did use the exact commands,
same securelevel.
Use the -o option for ls (ls -lo) to check on the effect
of chflags and chmod.
Just found it, something I forgot about a long time ago...
I was running under su logged in as my normal user.
Had to back all the way out and log in as root.
I should have mentioned that I did the (successful) test
logging in as root (real console login). If you use "su -"
or "su root", the effect should be the same. You can always
check the success of your operation with the "ls -lo" command.
Nope. That was the problem. I had logged in on the vty as normal user
and done su root. Had to back all the way out and log in on the vty as
root to make it work.
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