On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Oisin C. Feeley wrote:
> On 21 Oct 2002, Russell Johns wrote:
>
> > H-
> >
> > forgive my ignorance, but I'm not understanding whats going wrong here
> > ...
> > essentially a large file that I own I can't delete...
> > why do I not have permission to delete this file???
> >
On 21 Oct 2002, Russell Johns wrote:
> H-
>
> forgive my ignorance, but I'm not understanding whats going wrong here
> ...
> essentially a large file that I own I can't delete...
> why do I not have permission to delete this file???
>
> [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso
> rm: cannot remove `rcj.i
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:42:09AM -0600, Russell Johns wrote:
> [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ ls -l
> total 423972
> -rwxrwxrwx1 rcj xcdroast 433717248 Oct 21 10:39 rcj.iso
> [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ chown rcj.rcj rcj.iso
chown u+w .
You need a write right for the directory you are trying to remove
Russell Johns wrote:
H-
forgive my ignorance, but I'm not understanding whats going wrong here
...
essentially a large file that I own I can't delete...
why do I not have permission to delete this file???
To delete a file you need write permission in the directory. Write
permission to a
Russell Johns wrote:
H-
forgive my ignorance, but I'm not understanding whats going wrong here
...
essentially a large file that I own I can't delete...
why do I not have permission to delete this file???
[rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso
rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied
[rcj@Merak
H-
forgive my ignorance, but I'm not understanding whats going wrong here
...
essentially a large file that I own I can't delete...
why do I not have permission to delete this file???
[rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso
rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied
[rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ chmod 777 r
