From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 23 09:17:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA29953 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 09:17:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from toplink2.toplink.net (mail.privat.toplink.de [195.2.171.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA29948 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 09:17:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danielh@privat.toplink.de) Received: from abyssone (dip-030.hbg.dinx.de [195.2.169.30]) by toplink2.toplink.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA23615; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 18:15:01 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199808231615.SAA23615@toplink2.toplink.net> X-Sender: danielh@mail.herrenberg.netsurf.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Demo X-Priority: 1 (Highest) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 18:22:08 +0000 To: djv@bedford.net From: Daniel Haischt Subject: Re: undo a sym-linked directory Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199808231139.HAA14691@lucy.bedford.net> References: <199808231055.DAA24307@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG HIYA the directory I gave u was just an example here comes the real directory structure: /home/abysswor/public_html/ | |__/abysswo1/public_html/awu/abysswor OK - the folder /abysswo1/public_html/awu/ is symlinked to /home/abysswor/ and if I view the properties of /abysswo1/public_html/awu/abysswor my ftp-program shows me the following: File Filoder (-> /home/abysswor) But if I try to delete the awu folder i'll get allway a 'dir not empty' message. Now again: How can u delete this(the awu) dir??? Best Regards And A Big THX For Ur Help Daniel Haischt At 07:39 23.08.98 -0400, you wrote: >Daniel Haischt wrote: >> HIYA >> >> I know that this is a beginner question but anyway her it comes: >> >> On my webserver I've made a sym-link to another directory with: >> >> ln -s /home/abysswor/gem gem >the real file ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >the symlink................^^^ > >cd where the symlink is, and delete *it*. > > >> >> and know I want to delete this sym-linked directory but it >> allways says that the directory isnt empty, so how can I >> undo the sym-link??? >> >> Best Regards >> >> Daniel Haischt >> >DAve >-- > Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message