chown: changing ownership of ... Operation not permitted

Gregory PiƱero gregpinero at gmail.com
Sat Aug 19 21:25:44 UTC 2006


On 8/19/06, Scott J. Henson <scotth at csee.wvu.edu> wrote:
> It seems as though the perimisions have been messed up.  You
> may want to do the following.
> chmod 644 /etc/maplotlibrc

I should have tried this.
>
> As far as rm not working, if you had specified -f it would
> have worked.

I tried this as well and got the same result:
rm: cannot remove `/etc/matplotlibrc': Operation not permitted

Greg




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