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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!colornet!dfilip
- From: dfilip@colornet.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Unable to delete file
- Keywords: delete protections
- Message-ID: <70@colornet.com>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 02:36:09 GMT
- References: <1hh0mmINNfjb@gap.caltech.edu>
- Distribution: world
- Summary: Check the protections of the parent dir
- Organization: ColorNet Information Systems
- Lines: 46
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- Carl J Lydick writes :
- >In article <009658B3.F3FE06A0.30649@VAX1.Bemidji.MSUS.EDU>,
- >ts117@VAX1.BEMIDJI.MSUS.EDU (TANDI SUNARTO) writes:
- >
- >>I couldn't delete a file in my directory, eventhough I have set the
- >>protection of owner to RWED, yet I keep reeiving insufficient privelege
- >>or file protection violation message.
- >
- >You can start by posting the output of DIRECTORY/FULL on both the file in
- >question and the directory in which it resides, and the output of the command
- >SHOW PROCESS. That way, we'll have enough information to have a decent chance
- >of being able to help you.
-
- Although I agree with Carl that more information would be helpful, I've seen
- this problem quite frequently, and it USUALLY points to the protection of the
- PARENT directory, to which the user must also have write access to.
-
- If that does not fix the problem, then more information would definitly
- be needed.
-
- For someone with privs, non-obvious protection problems can frequently be
- resolved by :
-
- $ set audit/alarm/ena=file=fail
- $ reply/ena
-
- and then running the offending program (I believe I have the 'set audit'
- syntax correct, however I am not sitting at a VAX now, so consult your
- local VAX online help for the correct order of qualifiers). This will
- generate an alarm with the offending programs name, specifically what
- file it could not access, and the access that it wanted.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Regards,
-
- Dave.
-
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