Odd rm Experience

[Paul Boniol]

I listened to an mp3 (recorded from the earlier adventure in automatically running VLC). Close VLC.

I went to delete the file in Thunar file manager, and the delete and trash options were grayed out for the file. So I went to the command line, cd'd to the directory.

ls -lh filename

-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 220M (etc.)

rm filename

rm: cannot remove 'filename': Permission denied

I was immediately able to sudo rm the file. My first thought was somehow I didn't have write permission, but I'm logged in as the file owner, and it obviously says I have user and group write permission.

Any thoughts on what could cause this?  (That file is gone now, so I can't do any other prodding, and I'm not ready to delete another from the directory yet.)

Paul

[Paul Boniol]

Of course right after I hit send I had another thought. I have a possible answer. 

Somehow I was not the owner of the directory the file was in, and didn't have write permission to the directory (drwxr-xr-x), even though I owned and had write permission to the file. That has been corrected, still have to wait to see, but I think that should fix it.

Paul

[Kent Perrier]

What about the permissions on the directory?

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[Tilghman Lesher]

Paul-

Check out the manpage for unlink(2). There are multiple possible
reasons. All of the possibilities are listed there.

-Tilghman

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[dbacus67]

Hey Paul. Happy New Year!

Creating and removing files are dependent upon directory permissions, not file permissions, as you are modifying the contents of the directory.

Hope this helps!

Dan

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[Csaba Toth]

My 2 cents: are you sure when you closed VLC it died completely with all of its child processes?

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