Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:43:09 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Chip Wiegand" <chip@wiegand.org>, "Questions FreeBSD" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help! a directory won't go away even as root Message-ID: <042301c25d11$a658f470$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <1032133467.216.2.camel@chip.wiegand.org>
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> 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. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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