[LUAU] The file that would not die...

[Eric Hattemer]

You don't need to own or have write permission on the file, but you do 
need to have write permission to the directory its in.  Make sure the 
directory that has it is at least drwx------.  If that's not your 
problem, try running fsck on the (unounted) partition. 

-Eric Hattemer


kilauea wrote:

> Aloha to all from Kauai
>
> I have a problem deleting a file. I play quake3 online and I think
> someone has found an exploit in networked quake3. The first time this
> happened, my game configuration file was deleted. Then today, the
> configuration file was somehow modified to make it inaccessible even to
> root! The game binary was also modified in this fashion. When I try to
> do a chown, chgrp, ls, or rm, I get something like " rm: cannot remove
> `pak0.pa3':  Permission denied ". I can move the directories but can't
> delete the files. I have a reiser fs on Slackware. I also have RedHat on
> another partition so I booted RedHat and mounted the Slackware
> partition  but this produced the same result. I moved the inaccessible
> files and restored the game files with no problems.  I would like to
> just delete these files. Has anyone experience with this sort of problem?
>
> Thanks
> Kilauea
>
>
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