From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 6:59:46 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 50CCF37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 06:59:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from arpa.com (arpa.com [199.245.173.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 052B243E4A for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 06:59:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wd@arpa.com) Received: by arpa.com (Postfix, from userid 102) id 4AF9275A; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:59:39 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:59:39 -0600 From: Chip Norkus To: Louis LeBlanc Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: non-writeable directory - can't be removed Message-ID: <20021104145939.GA75425@arpa.com> References: <20021104145702.GB46132@keyslapper.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021104145702.GB46132@keyslapper.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Mon Nov 04, 2002; 09:57AM -0500 Louis LeBlanc propagated the following: > Hey all. I'm trying to get some temp files cleaned out, and the one > giving me trouble is /tmp/temproot/var/empty/ > > The empty directory is in fact empty, but the ownership and > permissions seem to make it impossible to remove it. I've tried rm > -rf, rm -df, and rmdir all as root, but all I get is: > # rm -df empty/ > rm: empty/: Operation not permitted > Try 'chflags noschg /tmp/temproot/var/empty' and then try removing it again. -wd -- chip norkus; unix geek and programmer; wd@arpa.com "question = (to) ? be : !be;" --Shakespeare http://telekinesis.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message