Yes, naturally I've tried all options of rm as documented in rm --help and man rm.
Also true of rmdir.
Yes I want to remove it because during the boot process I'm told there are bad characters in the file name.
The two rogue files was originally here:
/var/log/seti//dev/log
/var/log/seti//var/loc
Obviously that's not right. Seti is a application data directory for my command line seti app.
/dev/log and /var/loc are pretending to be dirctories but they're not. I can't remove them as files or directories, but at boot time the system tells me they're bad file names and won't let the boot continue. When I go in to a diagnostic shell (and remount the root directory as RW, of course) I cannot delete them.
Again, rm and rmdir are trying to be too smart. I think I need a low level utility that will allow me to remove the entries without trying to be smart and protecting me from myself, but I don't know of any such thing. Any more clues, anyone? I'm down for over 12 hours now.
julian. ============
At 10:58 AM 6/29/03, you wrote:
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On Sunday 29 June 2003 10:28 am, Julian Opificius wrote: > Thanks Fred, but as I said, rm doesn't work - even with the -f switch > and escaping the forward slash(es). > I don't think the C code will work - isn't that just what rm tries to > do? > > If I do a rm -f "/dev/log" it just ignores me. > If I do a rm -f -d "/dev/log" it ignores me. > If I go one level higher, and do the same on the directory holding the > offending "files": > rm -f -d setiold it tells me it can't delete setiold as it's a > directory. Yes I know it's a directory, that's why I said -d but it > still ignores me.
I haven't really followed this thread...
Are you sure you want to remove /dev/log? [EMAIL PROTECTED] slinky]$ file /dev/log /dev/log: socket [EMAIL PROTECTED] slinky]$ ll /dev/log srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jun 4 19:51 /dev/log
> I've tried rmdir, but that won't work either - it tells me the > directory isn't empty. If I use the --ignore-fail-on-non-empty switch > it ignores me.
How about rm -rf directory? (remove, recursively, the directory and it's contents, without prompting
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