rm: cannot remove `dny': Read-only file system


i am administrator :
[root@pty12237b ~]# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

and i cannot delete ! why!

Where is the file you're trying to remove (eg. usb drive)? What file system is it?

[root@pty12237b dny]# pwd
/root/dny
[root@pty12237b dny]#

in my hard!!!

Can you post the output of ls -l from that directory (and which file are you trying to remove)?

[root@pty12237b dny]# ls -l
total 2424
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 4834 Aug 10 2008 Changelog
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 12175 Aug 10 2008 fphelper.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12439 Jul 13 21:44 fphelper.pyc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 12288 Aug 20 2008 groupdb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 35886 Aug 10 2008 helper.py
-rw-rw-r-- 1 504 504 35303 Feb 20 2010 helper.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 504 504 2 Aug 20 2008 log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 819486 Mar 3 17:37 parole.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 4298 Aug 10 2008 pptable.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4947 Jul 14 10:53 pptable.pyc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 1361 Aug 10 2008 README
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 4229 Aug 10 2008 regen.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4055 Jul 13 21:44 regen.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1730 Jul 16 09:16 sipuli.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 110592 Jul 16 09:21 staticfull
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 282624 Jul 16 09:20 staticheaders
-rw-r--r-- 1 504 504 21737 Aug 19 2008 svcrack.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 9159 Aug 10 2008 svlearnfp.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 22045 Aug 20 2008 svmap.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 8285 Aug 10 2008 svreport.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 504 504 24458 Aug 19 2008 svwar.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 749 Aug 10 2008 sv.xsl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 308 Aug 10 2008 THANKS
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 80 Aug 10 2008 TODO
-rwxr-xr-x 1 504 504 45056 Aug 20 2008 totag
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 819486 Mar 3 17:37 users.txt
[root@pty12237b dny]#



I WANNA DELETE ALL THIS DIR!

and btw i cannot attach any file

[root@pty12237b ~]# touch a
touch: cannot touch `a': Read-only file system
[root@pty12237b ~]#


WHY?

Please post the output of

[root@pty12237b ~]# mount
/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)

mount: warning: /etc/mtab is not writable (e.g. read-only filesystem).
It's possible that information reported by mount(8) is not
up to date. For actual information about system mount points
check the /proc/mounts file.

[root@pty12237b ~]#

OK, as it said, the content of /etc/mtab may be not accurate because it can't be written to that file. So it seems to me that your entire /-partition is mounted read-only. This normally only happens when the system recognizes errors on that partition and re-mounts the partition read-only to prevent further damage. The output ofshould show that the filesystem is read-only. I would recommend to run fsck on that partition to fix any errors and then reboot the machine.

[root@pty12237b ~]# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0
none /selinux selinuxfs rw 0 0
/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
/etc/auto.misc /misc autofs rw,fd=7,pgrp=4229,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0
-hosts /net autofs rw,fd=13,pgrp=4229,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0
[root@pty12237b ~]#

pls explain to me for console only because this server is buy from serverpronto.com !!! and i have only accesst so console!!

Did you edit /etc/fstab? What does it say?

how i edit that ? by console?

// Before we continue with our regular broadcast I'd like to point out that if you didn't put SIPVicious there (as that's what this "svcrack.py" is from) then you've got a major problem as it's used for auditing cracking SIP based VoIP systems and deleting the files isn't the end of it.

You could try running 'mount / -o remount,rw' but usually a file system goes read-only ('man tune2fs': "-e read-only") due to file system level problems which you need to fsck before doing anything else.

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