problem removing directory

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 12:14:19PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 01:02:13PM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I wanted to move /var/tmp to /tmp and symlink it for security reasons.
> > I move /var/tmp to /var/tmp-old and copied the files to /tmp and them 
> > symlink /var/tmp to /tmp. So far so good.
> > 
> > However, now i am unable to remove one directory and need some help in
> > removing this.
> > 
> > Intranet# ll
> > total 1
> > dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 16 22:04 empty/
> > Intranet# pwd
> > /var/tmp-old/temproot/var
> > Intranet# ll
> > total 1
> > dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 16 22:04 empty/
> > Intranet# rm -rf *
> Try:
> chflags -R noschg * in /var/tmp/

Tanks that did it.


> 
> Presumably you ran mergemaster at some point which creates the
> /var/tmp/temproot hierarchy and sets some system 'immutable' flags on
> some of the files in there to stop them being modified.  Running
> 'chflags noschg' removes the immutable flag.

Yes I did.

Tanks again,
Alex