[olug] directory impossible to delete

[Trent Melcher]

WHat are the attributes of the directory?  Is the filesystem it is in
mounted read-write, sometimes when errors occur filesystems will get mounted
read-only.

Trent


`chattr -a DIR; rm -f FILE'



-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org]On Behalf Of
Ryan O'Rourke
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 9:31 AM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: RE: [olug] directory impossible to delete


On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 09:21, Trent Melcher wrote:
> Those number were probably the UID and GID of a user that did exist and
was
> removed,  root should be able to remove these directories without the
owner
> existing.  However what you can do is create a user, then modify the
passwd
> and group file so the UID and GID of this user matches the UID and GID you
> gave, try that and see if then the user can delete the directory.

Thanks for the suggestion, Trent. I actually tried that approach and I'm
still not having any luck. I've created a user and group 'junk' with
those numbers for UID and GID.
The directory is now owned by user and group 'junk', permissions are
still 774 but anytime I login as 'junk' or try a 'sudo -u junk rm -rf
<stubborn_directory>' as root I get the same error message:
rm: cannot remove directory `stubborn_directory/': Operation not
permitted

chown, chmod, mv, etc all produce the same error message.

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