Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:17:20 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: Anders Andersson <anders@sanyusan.se>, Anand Buddhdev <me@anand.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rm dir, not empty? Message-ID: <19980831231720.B25145@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <009d01bdd4da$ef687000$4467a8c0@anders.sanyusan.se>; from Anders Andersson on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 02:29:01PM %2B0200 References: <009d01bdd4da$ef687000$4467a8c0@anders.sanyusan.se>
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On Mon 1998-08-31 (14:29), Anders Andersson wrote: > >> [root@enterprise /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/lib]# rm -rf libgmp/ > >> rm: libgmp/: Directory not empty > > > >Try 'rm -rf libgmp' > > > > rm -rf libgmp gives me the same error: > > [root@enterprise /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/lib]# rm -rf libgmp > rm: libgmp/: Directory not empty I tend to think that there are some immutable files somewhere down that directory. Try: chflags -R noschg libgmp && rm -rf libgmp Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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