can't remove directory

[Chuck Swiger]

Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:03:31AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> " What is the error message when you:
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> Sorry Ted. System write "Operation not permitted":
> 
> rm: /var/old-tmp/temproot/var/empty: Operation not permitted
> rm: /var/old-tmp/temproot/var: Directory not empty
> rm: /var/old-tmp/temproot: Directory not empty
> rm: /var/old-tmp: Directory not empty

Ah, what's happened is that the system immutable flag has been set on that 
directory.  You'll need to do:

	chflags -R noschg /var/old-tmp
	rm -rf /var/old-tmp

-- 
-Chuck