[Cialug] Unable to remove a directory in RedHat7

[Tom Sellers]

Based on the command that I found on line to check, it is not. I'm not even sure it exists on this old linux box. 


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 From: Josh More <jmore at starmind.org>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org> 
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Unable to remove a directory in RedHat7
 

Is SELinux on?

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Tom Pohl <tom at tcpconsulting.com> wrote:
> Was that directory created via samba? Can you go over samba to try to delete it?
>
> -Tom
>
>
>> On Aug 21, 2014, at 8:53 PM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Here is the command string that I entered.
>>
>> find Portal -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} \;
>>
>> It ran without any errors but the Portal directory is still there.  I don't really understand the command line.  I substituted the directory name in place of /dir but nothing else.  Is that correct? I ran the command line while I as already at the directory that contains the directory Portal.
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu>
>> To: cialug at cialug.org
>> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 8:08 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Unable to remove a directory in RedHat7
>>
>>
>>> On 08/21/2014 07:47 PM, Tom Pohl wrote:
>>> Can you try to mv the folder to a higher level like /usr/local/samba/public/extended/
>>>
>>> -Tom
>>
>> rm -rf can get hung up on unusual filenames, but "find" isn't as finicky.
>>
>> Just try:
>>
>>   find /dir -type f -exec rm {} \;
>>
>> Watch for error messages - they'll expose the culprit.  The above will
>> leave all of the directories in place though.
>>
>> If it goes through, you can also try clipping all directories one-deep:
>>
>>   find /dir -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} \;
>>
>>
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