can't remove directory

Eugene M. Minkovskii emin at mccme.ru
Thu Jan 6 03:23:35 PST 2005


On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:20:55AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
" Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote:
" >On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:03:31AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
" >" What is the error message when you:
" [ ...steps removed... ]
" >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
" 

Thank you, Chuck. It's work. 

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Sensory  yours, Eugene  Minkovskii
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