From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 28 13:11:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bcrail.com (ftp.bcrail.com [198.57.70.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9438937B406 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:11:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChildsC@BCRAIL.COM) Received: by gatekeeper.bcrail.com id <119046>; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:09:29 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:11:17 -0700 From: ChildsC@BCRAIL.COM Subject: RE: somewhat interesting rm issue To: brigg@flatlan.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <01Jun28.130929pdt.119046@gatekeeper.bcrail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What error messages are you getting? Maybe the name contains some spaces. Try rm -i blah* Chris -----Original Message----- From: Brigg Angus [mailto:brigg@flatlan.net] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:07 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: somewhat interesting rm issue I'm wondering if there's a way to rm a file that cannot be deleted by any of the regular methods. For instance, I had copied the contents of the Win98 SE reskit over from the Win98 CD to my home directory via Windows98/Samba. In trying to remove the reskit directory, one file, .nmH7Kghj could not be removed. I can successfully change the name (changed too "blah"), I can change the contents (file had an original size of 0 bytes), "chmod 777 blah" works fine (although there have been issues with it automatically reverting to chmod 655 here and there, with no reason I can divine), "unlink blah" does not work, "rm -rf blah" does not work, "chflags nouunlnk blah" does not work. When I rm or rm -rf the file there is no error message, but the file remains. "ls -ol blah" has yielded both, -rw-r-xr-x 1 777 brigg - 13 Jun 27 21:31 blah -rwxrwxrwx 1 777 brigg - 13 Jun 27 21:31 blah Running 4.3-stable Any ideas on what may be causing this, or a solution, would be appreciated. Brigg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message