Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:42:14 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: delete directory Message-ID: <hobn62$sdb$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <4BA95CF5.7090401@comclark.com>
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Aiza wrote: > This directory named empty has read/exec permissions. > How do I delete it? > > # /usr/jails/newjail/var >ls -l > total 2 > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 21 22:53 empty > # /usr/jails/newjail/var >cd empty > # /usr/jails/newjail/var/empty >ls -l > total 0 > # /usr/jails/newjail/var/empty >cd .. > # /usr/jails/newjail/var >rmdir empty > rmdir: empty: Operation not permitted > # /usr/jails/newjail/var >rm -rf empty > rm: empty: Operation not permitted > # /usr/jails/newjail/var >chmod 777 empty > chmod: empty: Operation not permitted Usually when I see this I think flags are set. See man chflags. Used to be it was something like chflags -R noschg <blah>, then you could do the usual rm -rf <blah> once the immutable flag was unset. Don't know if has changed. -Mike
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