delete directory

[krad]

On 24 March 2010 00:42, Michael Powell <nightrecon at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Aiza wrote:
>
> > This directory named empty has read/exec permissions.
> > How do I delete it?
> >
> > # /usr/jails/newjail/var >ls -l
> > total 2
> > dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 21 22:53 empty
> > # /usr/jails/newjail/var >cd empty
> > # /usr/jails/newjail/var/empty >ls -l
> > total 0
> > # /usr/jails/newjail/var/empty >cd ..
> > # /usr/jails/newjail/var >rmdir empty
> > rmdir: empty: Operation not permitted
> > # /usr/jails/newjail/var >rm -rf empty
> > rm: empty: Operation not permitted
> > # /usr/jails/newjail/var >chmod 777 empty
> > chmod: empty: Operation not permitted
>
> Usually when I see this I think flags are set. See man chflags.
>
> Used to be it was something like chflags -R noschg <blah>, then you could
> do
> the usual rm -rf <blah> once the immutable flag was unset. Don't know if
> has
> changed.
>
> -Mike
>
>
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sounds about right