-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:17:42PM -0700, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > I delete a log file like: > $ rm /var/log/postmaster.log
It doesn't say "No such file or directory", so I'm puzzled. Is rm aliased to 'rm -f'? What happens if you do $ rm /var/log/postmaster.log.lnk (just a guess), and then do the ls -l again? > Then do: > $ ls /var/log > lastlog postmaster.log setup.log setup.log.full sshd.log > > It still shows there, so I check again using: > > $ ls /var/log -l > ls: /var/log/postmaster.log: No such file or directory > total 365 > -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administ Domain A 3144744 Apr 28 09:34 lastlog > -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administ Domain A 94443 Apr 27 15:13 setup.log > -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administ Domain A 211575 Apr 27 15:13 setup.log.full > -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 SYSTEM Administ 141 Nov 22 11:55 sshd.log Do you have ls aliased to something else? Please do $ alias and tell us if, for example, ls is aliased to 'ls -L'. -L makes ls show the symlink destination in ls -l. > And it's gone! Hmmm...was it just a timing questions? > > $ ls /var/log > lastlog postmaster.log setup.log setup.log.full sshd.log > > Nope, still shows up when doing a wide listing but not a long listing. BTW on my GNU/Linux system I once had a similar experience with a file that was there but wasn't, but that seemed to have been due to filesystem corruption after a power failure. I had to rm -rf the whole directory to make the problem go away. (Fsck didn't see anything. Odd.) > Hope this helps improve the product. This is Cygwin, Windows 2000. You can't improve Windows, I think. You'd need the source to do that, or in a pinch a sledgehammer. - -- http://voyager.abite.co.za/~berndj/ (up again for now - yay!) I've generally found that the fastest way to get the right answer on the net is to confidently assert the answer you believe to be right; those who know will immediately correct you, while if you just ask, often no answers arrive. All it requires is a willingness to look bad on occasion. - Joe Buck on [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFAkMv8/FmLrNfLpjMRAuJzAJ0SahRgdwoRa9PVD1TBBGBWIfuGhQCgh0JU Yyr7tDtBWBFT0k/O43Fd46M= =MSv0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
