On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:55 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:33 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > or as Root "rm -rf .Mail-old" from the directory it is in. I am not > > aware of anything that an rm -rf won't get rid of. Just be sure you want > > to do it and that you specify exactly what you want to target. > > Umm, have you read the earlier messages in this thread? (not being a > smart-aleck - just curious) because you'd see where everytime I try to rm > this directory I get a hard reset of the entire system.
I saw a message where you had tried rm and it said you didn't have permission, I did not see the ones where it was giving you a hard reset of the system. Sorry. > > Been awhile since I done it, I guess you can see my reluctance but what the > hey, nothing exciting happening here today: > > BOOM! Same result. I closed everything I could before I tried it - system > hard reset/rebooted and I lost all my Kmail settings. (redoing them now). > > Guess its the one critter "rm" can't handle, eh? > > Can't wait for 9.2, I'm gonna send .Mail-old to bit-bucket Hell. :-) You coming up in init 5 or 3. I mean, graphical login or CL login? If KDE is up and active, could explain why trying to get rid of an active and open directory is causing problems. You could always boot up in single user mode, init 1 and then try to remove it there. Although, if the directory is actually active and in use, removing it might be a mistake. Curious if you might be storing a lock file there rather than /var/subsys for some KDE process.... Have you tried doing a ls -a from within that directory to see what is in there? -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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