Re: [cobalt-users] root account cannot delete files...

[Glen Scott <glen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> This will probably seem funny to some of you.  I SSH
> to my Raq3 today as admin and su to root.  As the root
> user I go into /home/sites/site3/web/cgi-bin and
> download and try to install something simple like a
> form-to-mail script.  After I'm done mucking around
> with it I typed rm -rf formmail.tar.gz and hit enter.
> It looks like it completes fine but a ls of the
> directory shows the file is still there.  I coulda
> swore I've said rm -rf on this same machine before as
> root and it would delete anything.  Any thoughts?

The -r switch means recurse into subdirectories, but since you are 
trying to delete a file, it will have no effect.  Just type 'rm 
formmail.tar.gz' to get rid of the file.

Regards,

Glen Scott

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