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pinr
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 Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:13 pm Post subject: Help can't delete resolv.conf |
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| Something weird has happened to /etc/resolv.conf it has no permissions whatsoever I cannot read it or delete it even as root. How can I delete this file I can no longer connect to the internet as it is corrupted. |
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Jaxom
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:09 am Post subject: |
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First thing I would do in that case is
That'll force a fsck on reboot to see if you have hdd problems since that file is kind of important...I'm just a better safe than sorry kind of guy.
Otherwise you might try being superuser and
| Code: | | chown root:root /etc/resolve.conf |
that should set ownership back to the root user and then you can do whatever else you need like set readable permissions back on the file with
| Code: | | chmod 644 /etc/resolve.conf |
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pinr
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 2:13 am Post subject: |
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I really can't do anything with this file. If I try either chown or chmod as root it just says:
cannot access ´resolv.conf' : Permission denied
the same thing happens with rm or any other command |
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fr0z
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| Sounds weird. Anything indicative in your syslog messages? That might give you a better idea. Otherwise I would go with the fsck suggestion by Jaxom, better to be safe than sorry. |
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pinr
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 2:28 am Post subject: |
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ok I managed to fix it with
reiserfsck --fix-fixable /dev/hda4
That removed the offending resolv.conf and I now have the Internet back
Thanks for the help |
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