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Villy

Can somebody tell me why I can't write to /etc/hosts.deny or
/etc/hosts.allow?  As root I get readonly when I open them with vi and
can't force the write using :w!  The permissions look right :

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          161 Jul 21  2000 hosts.allow
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          347 Jul 21  2000 hosts.deny

If I try to remove either one I get :

rm -f hosts.deny
rm: cannot unlink `hosts.deny': Operation not permitted

It also won't allow me to change the permissions, mv them.......

I can't find any links to it using symlinks.  I'm stumped.  Do I need to
stop all processes that use these files, then change them and then
restart the processes?  If so what processes use them apart from the
nfs-related ones (rpc.statd and so on)?

All this on a RedHat 6.2 installation running on a remote machine which
I ssh into as a regular user and then su to root.

Thanks,

Peadar