Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:44:28 +1000 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: Questions FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help! a directory won't go away even as root Message-ID: <200209152344.JAA29489@tungsten.austclear.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> of "15 Sep 2002 16:44:27 MST." <1032133467.216.2.camel@chip.wiegand.org>
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chip@wiegand.org said: > I have a directory that I can't remove. It's empty and looks like > this: > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 14 12:18 empty > It's even called empty. Anyway, I can't rm -rf, I can't chmod, when I > try I get Operation not permitted, while logged on as root. I have to > get rid of this, I can't create a ln -s because this is messing it up. It almost certainly has the "immutable" flag set. try: chflags noschg empty and then try to remove it. Tony -- Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Principal Networks, Security & IT Systems Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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