Cant delete/remove files in /opt

Johan Sandberg sampan at dkss.org
Fri Jan 25 13:40:35 UTC 2008


Rajat skrev:
> Hi,
>
> For some reason I am not able to remove any files from /opt directory. 
> It says permission denied. Also chmod doesn't wanna work
>
> For super user access i typed in su but the password - the same admin 
> password with which I install\mount\login doesn't work !
>
> Could you please let me know if I am going wrong somewher?
>
> Thanks
> Rajat
Try:
$ sudo rm /opt/theFileYouWantToDelete

That should fix your problem

BR
/Johan




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