rm -f doesn't delete symlink: Sollution

[Garrett Cooper]

Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote:
> At 09:37 18-12-2006, you wrote:
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>> Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote:
>> > At 00:06 18-12-2006, you wrote:
>> >> Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote:
>> >>> At 22:01 17-12-2006, you wrote:
>> >>>> Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote:
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>> >>>>> Hi,
>> >>>>> I am trying to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.1. But when I run installworld
>> >>>>> it halts when trying to create a symlink: /sys. Just before the
>> >>>>> error the script tries to delete the old symlink with: rm -f /sys.
>> >>>>> But this doesn't delete the symlink.
>> >>>>> No flags are set on /sys.
>> >>>>> Anybody got any idea what is wrong?
>> >>>>> Thanks.
>> >>>>> Jeppe
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> I finally found the - of course very simple - sollution my self. It 
> was rm that was corrupt. Luckily I has another server with FreeBSD, so 
> I used lftp to copy rm to /bin - and now it works again. Only I wonder 
> what other important files are corrupted - and how this happened...
>
> Jeppe
No softupdates on /? I noticed that that particular item wasn't turned 
on by default when I recently redid my machine.

I wonder why unlink didn't work though, because I thought rm depended on 
unlink. Hmm..

-Garrett