From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 28 09:15:01 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1BDAB6CC for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:15:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3B9A1FBA for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ox-dell39.ox.adestra.com (no-reverse-dns.metronet-uk.com [85.199.232.226] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id rAS9EpPO032992 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:14:56 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.8.3 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk rAS9EpPO032992 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1385630096; bh=SLiATgJESagssvbT7p8zQU4V6N7TkdK4S6TD1Wq3XTg=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; z=Date:=20Thu,=2028=20Nov=202013=2009:14:42=20+0000|From:=20Matthew =20Seaman=20|To:=20freebsd-questi ons@freebsd.org|Subject:=20Re:=20unlink=20a=20directory|References :=20|In-Reply-To:=20; b=OgEOaI1PSvWUX9XLnvl2PQBjMTsISo3LQ/Fwc8D+Rf+ULeHOpwOaZ3ecP8Nw25jto cIa6lDX7ekSN6vBftE5vKyXj4x9x0fIGTYrj6N9WoE0MW8Vy5buAUM9mktrOqYSRzE pwkQInlthWt0vpSwStKv8kFkTeBG0gycTcmlZsdk= X-Authentication-Warning: lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk: Host no-reverse-dns.metronet-uk.com [85.199.232.226] (may be forged) claimed to be ox-dell39.ox.adestra.com Message-ID: <52970982.6020000@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:14:42 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unlink a directory References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5RiaXrHWORjt2lUl9qeSnLRr3ETFiTfFb" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DCC_CHECK, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:15:01 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --5RiaXrHWORjt2lUl9qeSnLRr3ETFiTfFb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/28/13 09:04, Darrel wrote: > I can not recall how to unlink a directory. Installed a FreeBSD10 > system from memory and when making the kernel link went to /root/kernel= s > and linked rather than /usr/src/sys/amd64. >=20 > Now I have this: >=20 > (120) @ 4:01:40> ls -L conf > conf > (121) @ 4:01:43> ls -P conf > conf > (122) @ 4:01:56> ll conf > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24B Nov 24 22:57 conf@ -> > /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/ > (123) @ 4:02:09> pwd > /usr/src/sys/amd64 > (124) @ 4:04:22> cd conf > conf: Too many levels of symbolic links. It's a symbolic link, not a directory. # cd /usr/src/sys/amd64 # rm conf =2E.. but /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf should be a real directory with useful contents. I'd advise you to recover that part of the system sources by use of svn or freebsd-update or whatever. 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