Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:10:02 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, Questions FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help! a directory won't go away even as root -SOLVED Message-ID: <20020916091002.GA370@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <1032148419.216.8.camel@chip.wiegand.org> References: <1032133467.216.2.camel@chip.wiegand.org> <042301c25d11$a658f470$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <1032148419.216.8.camel@chip.wiegand.org>
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# chip@wiegand.org / 2002-09-15 20:53:39 -0700:
> On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 16:43, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > 'ls -alod empty' will most likely show a flag of 'schg'. Do
> > 'chflags noschg empty' and then you should be able to rm -rf without
> > problems.
>
> Thanks to all who replied so quickly. That was exactly the problem. I've
> never seen the immutable flag before. Something new to learn about.
>
> I had just installed fbsd-4.6.2 and then was in the process of moving
> /var to /usr/var and linking /usr/var to /var - like this -
>
> mkdir /usr/var
> cd /var
> tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - )
> cd /
> rm -rf /var
> ln -s /usr/var /var
>
> That's when I couldn't get rid of the directory /var/empty, I have no
> idea where it came from, if it was there by default, or what. I've done
> this every time I've installed freebsd and this is a first.
It's used by OpenSSH, and you want to keep it with the flags and
all.
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