Paul- Check out the manpage for unlink(2). There are multiple possible reasons. All of the possibilities are listed there.
-Tilghman On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 5:35 PM Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > > I listened to an mp3 (recorded from the earlier adventure in automatically > running VLC). Close VLC. > > I went to delete the file in Thunar file manager, and the delete and trash > options were grayed out for the file. So I went to the command line, cd'd to > the directory. > ls -lh filename > -rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 220M (etc.) > > rm filename > rm: cannot remove 'filename': Permission denied > > I was immediately able to sudo rm the file. My first thought was somehow I > didn't have write permission, but I'm logged in as the file owner, and it > obviously says I have user and group write permission. > > Any thoughts on what could cause this? (That file is gone now, so I can't do > any other prodding, and I'm not ready to delete another from the directory > yet.) > > Paul > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS3YjYEknC5aiDAkpaRp-rUiJFB%3DNm%3DWsOj6kFXmJDwODg%40mail.gmail.com. -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAHPkZcXkiC1Dh%2BRyfyK2a5fnx2CCu-wFms8pu712W0WO%3D6%3D%3Dhg%40mail.gmail.com.
