Hi I've encountered a weird situation where I can't delete a file: (reproductile on rh9 and fc3, no selinux) $ id uid=500(marius) gid=500(marius) groups=500(marius) mkdir d1 >d1/a.txt chmod 571 d1 chmod 460 d1/* ls -al d1/ total 12 dr-xrwx--x 2 marius marius 4096 Dec 8 15:01 . drwxrwxrwt 17 root root 4096 Dec 8 15:01 .. -r--rw---- 1 marius marius 0 Dec 8 15:01 a.txt rm d1/a.txt rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `d1/a.txt'? y rm: cannot remove `d1/a.txt': Permission denied The directory d2 has write permissions for my group, and file it's writable by group. I belong to that group, why can't the file be removed? Thanks in advance for enlightenment -- Marius Andreiana Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania http://www.galuna.ro