From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 19:30: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C0614DBE for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:30:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikegoe@ibm.net) Received: from nikki (slip-32-101-75-20.oh.us.ibm.net [32.101.75.20]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id DAA65700 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 03:29:44 GMT Message-Id: <199903080329.DAA65700@out2.ibm.net> From: "Michael G." To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 22:34:50 -0500 Reply-To: "Michael G." X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: /var -- Device Busy Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmmm...I've always used rm -r to remove directories...didn't even realize there was a rmdir command...I guess there's many ways to do the same thing... :) Michael G. On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:31:08 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >BTW, you won't be able to rm the /var directory at any time, simply >because it's a directory. You'll have to use rmdir. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ICQ #24517082 Live FreeBSD...Or Die! PIC X 10 VALUE "YES! COBOL" ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message