[OT] RE: Being denied my own files!

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

søn, 13.03.2005 kl. 13.17 skrev Miles Goodhew:
> Kyrre,
> 
> 
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:09:28 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
> <kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> > Strange. I have experienced several times to delete something root-owned
> > (in my home folder) from nautilus -> get thrown to ~/.Trash. (or
> > media/trash, but removable media is usually vfat so permissions isn't an
> > issue)
> > 
> > When i then try to empty trash, all i get is "acess denied".
> 
>   If you own a directory, or if you have write permission to it, you
> can modify all links (file names) within it. If root owns any "normal"
> file in the dir, you can delete them immediately (rather, "unlink"
> them - only the system can delete).
>   However, you can't unlink a directory file (yes, at the inode level,
> everything's a file with a specific type) unless the directory only
> contains the two links/names "." and ".." ("self inode" and "parent
> inode").
>   So it follows from the preceding two paragraphs that if root owns a
> directory in your home directory (and you can't write to that
> directory), then you can move it to some other directory (say
> "~/.trashcan" or something similar), but you can never actually
> crowbar it out of the filesystem.
> 
>   In that final case (and if you don't actually have root access to
> the box you're using), I usually move the directory as far up the
> filesystem as I can (put it in "/tmp" if it's the same filesystem),
> rename it to something like "FOR_CLIFFS_SAKE_DELETE_ME" and then
> possibly send the owner an email requesting it be expunged).

Okay, i understand :)

Isn't /tmp often flushed by a reboot etc, also?