chown: changing ownership of ... Operation not permitted

[Gregory Piñero]

On 8/19/06, Scott J. Henson <scotth at csee.wvu.edu> wrote:
> From this and your other reply... it sounds like your root
> fs got mounted read-only for some reason.

However I did try chown on a few other files in the /etc directory and
it worked fine.  So it probably wouldn't be the whole root file
system, right?  I guess I won't worry about it quite yet.  I do have
everything backed up though so I'm prepared.

-Greg