maybe you have some process still running which has a file open in that dir. try 'lsof' to check if that is the case and then kill that process
HTH, Peter
Ryan wrote:
yup
i have no idea why tried everything cant get it deleted
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:03:05 -0400 Barry Marler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
rm -rf "dir_name" as root doesn't work?
On 12:47 Mon 20 Oct , Ryan wrote:
morning all
i finished installing my box on friday and started to emerge windowmaker before i went home .
now this morning i have a dir with these permissions
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root
but when i try delete the dir i get permission denied ,any ideas as to how i can delete this dir, as windowmaker wont emerge till its gone.
thanks ryan
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