delete directory

Nathan Vidican nathan at vidican.com
Wed Mar 24 11:44:53 UTC 2010


Check the chflags; 'man chflags'

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Aiza <aiza21 at comclark.com> 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
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