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

[BHC <bcaricofe@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was spelling the file wrong...what can I say, I had
been working for nearly 20 hours straight at that
point...thanks though...

~Brad



--- Glen Scott <glen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >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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