On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:

> Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system:
> 
>  bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/
>  total 269488144
>  c---r----- 8240 8224     8224      32,  48 Aug  2  1995 drafts
> 
> I can't delete it!
> 
>  bash-2.00# chown root drafts 
>  chown: drafts: Operation not permitted
> 
>  bash-2.00# rm -f drafts 
>  rm: drafts: Operation not permitted
> 
> What can I do to get rid of it?

As root can you chmod 700 drafts and then try rm -f drafts?

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