From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 15 16:41:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA7F37B400 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68E5143E81 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:41:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AA4E721011A; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:39:58 -0700 Subject: Help! a directory won't go away even as root From: Chip Wiegand To: Questions FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 15 Sep 2002 16:44:27 -0700 Message-Id: <1032133467.216.2.camel@chip.wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 I have a directory that I can't remove. It's empty and looks like this: dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 14 12:18 empty It's even called empty. Anyway, I can't rm -rf, I can't chmod, when I try I get Operation not permitted, while logged on as root. I have to get rid of this, I can't create a ln -s because this is messing it up. Thanks for the help, Chip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message