RE: Directory won't delete

From: Swanson, James CONTRACTOR (james.swanson_contractor@DTRA.MIL)
Date: Fri Feb 10 2006 - 13:55:06 EST


That was interesting. Thanks to all who wrote back. I first tried
fscking the partition, and it turned out that there was a weird link
thing going. When I ran fsck, it reported "ldap is an extraneous Hard
Link to Directory /ldap/restore," which is what I needed to delete. I
had done and ls -l on ldap and it did not indicate anysort of link to
restore. Go figure. Thanks a bunch!!!

James Swanson
Unix Sysadmin
DTRA
Phone: 703-767-4541

-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Swanson, James
CONTRACTOR
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:39 PM
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Subject: Directory won't delete

Hi all,

I have a directory (/var/ldap/restore) that won't delete. I do rm -rf
/var/ldap/restore (as root), it spits back "rm: Unable to remove
directory restore: File exists". Yet the directory is empty. What am I
missing?

BTW, I need to be able to delete this directory for the "ldapclient
manual" command to work. If anyone knows anything, I will summarize and
print back. Thanks!

James Swanson
Unix Sysadmin
DTRA
Phone: 703-767-4541
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