WTH is a 'schg' flag?

[Dan Shoop]

At 1:25 AM +0100 12/3/03, ocs wrote:
>Hi,
>
>trying to solve a friend's problem with an "undeletable" file I've 
>bumped into an "schg" HFS flag. The thing is described as "the 
>system immutable flag", which does not say much, at leaset to me.

It means the file is "immutable": that is can't be changed. (I'd 
expect, as all other have, that the word means what it says.)

>The best part is that I've found that, as a root, I can _set_ it, 
>but not _remove_ it?
>
>25 /tmp# touch qqq
>26 /tmp# chflags schg qqq
>27 /tmp# ls -lo qqq
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  schg 0  3 Dec 01:13 qqq
>28 /tmp# whoami
>root
>29 /tmp# chflags noschg qqq
>chflags: qqq: Operation not permitted
>30 /tmp#
>
>Can someone shed some light on that (and give me a clue how to get 
>rid of a schg-infected file or folder)?

RTFM: `man chflags`

Your issue is because you're not using the command properly. It's uchg.
-- 

-dhan

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