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From: gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: undeleteable file
Date: 3 Jul 1997 02:29:51 GMT
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In article <9C00746FF63FEE1D.72EA4EFF4A14AA18.4741B474466FC265@library-proxy.airnews.net>,
	Phil Crown <pcrown@ispnews.com> writes:
> I have a file that can't be deleted.

Read up on chflags(1).
Check for the system immutable flag with:

  ls -ol <file>

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Gardner Buchanan    <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca>
Ottawa, ON