Owner of the file can not remove it

jonaskellens · 03-16-2010, 04:47 AM

Probably a very basic and thumb question but I can't remove a file where I am owner of :

Code:

[jonas@webserver html]$ ls -l | grep file
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jonas jonas  3323 2010-03-15 20:33 file.php
[jonas@webserver html]$ rm file.php 
rm: cannot remove `file.php': Permission denied

The directory that holds this file is html :

Code:

[jonas@webserver mysite]$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root    4096 2010-03-15 18:32 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 9 apache webusers 4096 2010-03-15 20:34 html

PJvG · 03-16-2010, 04:50 AM

Would it help to give write permissions to the directory that holds the file?
Else couldn't you just remove it with sudo?

Good luck!

Sayan Acharjee · 03-16-2010, 04:52 AM

Try this:

Quote:

chattr -i file.php
$rm -rf file.php

You must be root to execute chattr.

jonaskellens · 03-16-2010, 04:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PJvG

Else couldn't you just remove it with sudo?

jonas is also my ftp-user and I am unable to change or delete files from within NetBeans.
I can't sudo here.

Giving write-permissions on 'html' to others clears the problem.

So I will have to make my user 'jonas' member of the group 'webusers'.

chrism01 · 03-16-2010, 07:07 PM

Basically, yes. Removing a file involves writing to the inode table ie the dir file itself.