yeah, having looked at your post in more detail..<br><br>why are you using lsattr? you not looking at device nodes are you.<br><br>ls -la with show permissions..<br><br>unless you have some extended ACL filesystem?<br><br>what is this, a server? format it, install windows. ;-)<br><br><br><br><b><i>Alan S Frost <alan@biziserve.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi,<br><br>I have been watching the list, just for interest sake, for some while <br>now and and would like a little assistance from your collective minds.<br><br>I am running a Fedora core 3 Linux server for numerous client websites. <br>Everything, apart from a proliferation of SPAM which is on the increase, <br>was working OK until yesterday when I hit a problem trying to save an <br>updated /etc/hosts.deny file when it said the file was read-only. The <br>file attributes all indicated no issue.<br><br>Output
from "lsattr /" shows the I flag is set on the entire /etc directory;<br><br>------------- /misc<br>lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /proc<br>------------- /media<br>------------- /lib<br>----------I-- /sbin<br>----------I-- /etc<br>------------- /lost+found<br>------------- /mnt<br>------------- /srv<br>------------- /tmp<br>------------- /root<br>------------- /opt<br>------------- /boot<br>lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /sys<br>------------- /home<br>------------- /var<br>------------- /sw<br>------------- /aquota.group<br>------------- /selinux<br>------------- /aquota.user<br>lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /dev<br>------------- /usr<br>------------- /initrd<br>------------- /bin<br><br>Have you ever experienced this problem? How is it caused and how can I <br>reset it please?<br><br>regards,<br><br>Alan Frost<br><br>Biziserve Internet
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