An invincible file

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Mar 18 18:11:26 UTC 2011


On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:08:07AM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> Changing the file permissions make little difference (though I can, in
> fact, do so without any errors). As root, one should be able to delete
> the fail regardless of the permissions (exempting certain "attributes"
> of which it has none).
> 
> As mentioned by William, I had also already umounted and fsck'ed the
> filesystem, which had no errors.
> 
> I've even rebooted the box, but the file is still stuck like glue.

selinux stuff perhaps?  I have never dealt with selinux so not sure what
difficulties it can cause.

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