Did you do a ls -a to make sure there are no hidden files? 

To totally remove it type: rm -rf <directory_name>

That should get rid of the whole thing...

Eddie Strohmier
Bonwell Globalnet
www.bonwell.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Bob Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 9:39 PM
Subject: directory not empty


> Okay,
> 
> I am trying to delete a directory.  This directory contains only the
> .directory "file", yet every time I try to rmdir [directory name] I get
> the error that the directory is not empty.  All is done as root  and
> owner and user of the directory are root.  Any ideas why I can't do
> this??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
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