From: Howard Hurst (howard.hurst@unitedadvertising.co.uk)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 07:17:42 EDT
Thanks to everyone who replied (over 37 of you!).
The main issue I was having trouble with was due to the fact that the
directory was in /home and not a normal directory.
I took another look at the /etc/autohome file... Again, on first
examination, it looked fine, but then as I scrolled down I realised that
the last line of the file was in fact a "~" - i.e. someone had
physically entered a "~" rather than the normal ones ("empty lines")
that are displayed in Vi. I removed this rogue "~" and rebooted the box
and all was well.
Thanks for your help - at least I'll know what to do if I ever come
across a strangely named file in the future!
Howard.
-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Howard Hurst
Sent: 13 August 2003 10:02
To: Sun Managers
Subject: Delete Directory named "~"
A colleague of mine has somehow managed to create a directory called "~"
(without the quotes) in the /home directory on a server running Solaris
8.
Any ideas how I can delete it?
# cd /home
# ls -la
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Aug 13 09:54 ~
# rm -r ~
rm: cannot read directory ~: No such file or directory
# ls -bq
~
# ls -i
12 ~
# find /home -mount -inum 12 -exec rm {} \;
cannot open /home/~: No such file or directory
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Howard.
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