Jeff Rizzo <riz@boogers.sf.ca.us> writes:
> chflags did the trick (or at least it did once I got to securelevel 0).
> I shudder to think what sort of disk corruption caused this... (it
> was supposed to be an ordinary textfile, and I've certainly never set flags
> before)

You really should take down the box and fsck the volume. 

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