On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 21:41 -0700, Kirk wrote: > I installed a tarball and then discovered I didn't need it. I tried to > delete the director & files but permission gets denied. I tried to > chmod but it wouldn't work on the files or directory. I checked the > permissions which said I'm not the owner & can't change them. If you're not the owner then you must have been superuser when you did the installation (or you were logged in as a different user). In any case, become that user again using 'su' and proceed. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines