Very Computer

> I'm running RH 6.1 and was trying to upgrade the bind package via rpm but it
> fails saying it is unable to delete (via RPM_DELETE) the /usr/sbin/named file.
> I then went in as root and tried to manually remove named but get an error
> message saying "rm: cannot unlink `/usr/sbin/named': Operation not permitted".
> I'd had a 4 second power outage recently and thought perhaps the problem had to
> do with an inode or something being corrupted so I ran fsck to try to fix the
> problems that were listed at boot. This did not do the trick.
> Besides not being able to remove or overwrite this file, I'm also unable to run
> chmod on it...
> Any thoughts/suggestions on how I can kill off this pesky file?
> Thanks.

> -jason

> Hmm... possibly I don't know what I'm talking about, but could you be
> running the file?  Check with something like "ps -A | grep 'named'".  If
> you're running it kill it and then delete the file.

> Regards,
> Mladen

> > I'm running RH 6.1 and was trying to upgrade the bind package via rpm but it
> > fails saying it is unable to delete (via RPM_DELETE) the /usr/sbin/named file.
> > I then went in as root and tried to manually remove named but get an error
> > message saying "rm: cannot unlink `/usr/sbin/named': Operation not permitted".
> > I'd had a 4 second power outage recently and thought perhaps the problem had to
> > do with an inode or something being corrupted so I ran fsck to try to fix the
> > problems that were listed at boot. This did not do the trick.
> > Besides not being able to remove or overwrite this file, I'm also unable to run
> > chmod on it...
> > Any thoughts/suggestions on how I can kill off this pesky file?
> > Thanks.

> > -jason

>> Hmm... possibly I don't know what I'm talking about, but could you be
>> running the file?  Check with something like "ps -A | grep 'named'".  If
>> you're running it kill it and then delete the file.

>> Regards,
>> Mladen

>> > I'm running RH 6.1 and was trying to upgrade the bind package via rpm but it
>> > fails saying it is unable to delete (via RPM_DELETE) the /usr/sbin/named file.
>> > I then went in as root and tried to manually remove named but get an error
>> > message saying "rm: cannot unlink `/usr/sbin/named': Operation not permitted".
>> > I'd had a 4 second power outage recently and thought perhaps the problem had to
>> > do with an inode or something being corrupted so I ran fsck to try to fix the
>> > problems that were listed at boot. This did not do the trick.
>> > Besides not being able to remove or overwrite this file, I'm also unable to run
>> > chmod on it...
>> > Any thoughts/suggestions on how I can kill off this pesky file?
>> > Thanks.

>> > -jason

>The ext2 filesystem has a feature,which lets you add attributes
>(particular permissions) to files. For example set the attribute
>"immutable" (chattr -i),which prohibits changes on files,even by root.
>Maybe on of these attributes is set on named ? (lsattr shows them)
>Greetings Oli

>I'm running RH 6.1 and was trying to upgrade the bind package via rpm but it
>fails saying it is unable to delete (via RPM_DELETE) the /usr/sbin/named file.
>I then went in as root and tried to manually remove named but get an error
>message saying "rm: cannot unlink `/usr/sbin/named': Operation not permitted".
>I'd had a 4 second power outage recently and thought perhaps the problem had to
>do with an inode or something being corrupted so I ran fsck to try to fix the
>problems that were listed at boot. This did not do the trick.
>Besides not being able to remove or overwrite this file, I'm also unable to run
>chmod on it...
>Any thoughts/suggestions on how I can kill off this pesky file?