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

[Shane Lambert <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You do realize that if you type the first few letters of the file name
then hit tab that Linux will auto complete the filename, don't you?

BHC wrote:
> 
> 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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