Failing to delete files that is hold by makegroup
Johan Kruger
JKR@Nanoteq.com
Tue Aug 26 07:47:00 GMT 2003
Hi,
I include two text files of directories that shows different attributes in the patrent directory that does not want to delete, maybe this is where the problem starts.
Thanks,
Johan Kruger
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-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
Sent: 25 August 2003 05:00
To: Johan Kruger
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Failing to delete files that is hold by makegroup
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Johan Kruger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please help, on my Windows2000 machine a failed build script has left a
> directory on my machine that I am unable to delete, I have searched the
> internet, tried chmod to no avail, even tried shred. I am in a bit of
> confusion at this stage.
>
> Thanks,
> Johan Kruger
Johan,
What program do you use to delete directories? What message are you
getting when you try to delete that directory?
If you get "permission denied", what is the output of 'ls -ld <dir>'?
What about 'getfacl <dir>'? Who is the owner of the directory?
Igor
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