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Re: [cobalt-users] unable to remove file



On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:30 pm, Rick wrote:
> Hi,
> There is a problem when i try to remove a specified file.
> [root /root]# ls -al /proc/ksyms
> -r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 Jul  7 10:28 /proc/ksyms
> [root /root]# chmod 755 /proc/ksyms
> [root /root]# ls -al /proc/ksyms
> -r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 Jul  7 10:28 /proc/ksyms
> [root /root]# rm /proc/ksyms
> rm: cannot unlink `/proc/ksyms': Operation not permitted
> [root /root]#
>
/proc is not a disk directory, its a READ-ONLY directory in RAM

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