From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 20:15:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peacock.tci.com (coral.tci.com [198.178.8.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 460BF14C38 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:15:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@tci.com) Received: from oreo.tci.com (isdn-tubutis.tci.com [165.137.247.101]) by peacock.tci.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA08804; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 21:15:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from tci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oreo.tci.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA08352; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 21:14:46 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36E34EB6.929EE4FF@tci.com> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 21:14:46 -0700 From: Chris Tubutis Organization: Tele-Communications, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael G." Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: /var -- Device Busy References: <199903080329.DAA65700@out2.ibm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Michael G." wrote: > > 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... > :) Are you sure you weren't using rm -rf? > > 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 -- Chris Tubutis | Tele-Communications, Inc. TCI Advanced Information Technology | AIT - Internal Networks (303) 267-7503 | 5970 S. Greenwood Plaza Blvd. tubutis.chris@tci.com | Englewood, CO 80111-4713 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message