Thank you all for your swift replies.
Tried all your solutions but to no avail. chown gives me path too long
messages.
chmod -R 777 works fine but i still get the "permission denied" message.
I just tried getting into the sub-directories, somewhere around 80 to 90
down the line and then fired ls -l and found that root is no more the owner.
ls -l gives me "127" in the place of user id.
After a series of cd commands to the sub-directories, the cd command hangs
for sometime and comes out with "no space" error.
pwd gives me read error.
I am also enclosing the file which contains the "rm -r" error sequence.
I have almost dug into about 200 sub-directories. Its just impossible for me
to get in more deep.
Kindly help me out.
<<telnet.log>> This log file shows only about 74 sub-directories, but
there are many many more to go.
Regards,
Rekha
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rekha Raghavan-RT
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 June, 2001 6:15 PM
> To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
> Subject: Unable to delete recursive directory structure using rm -r
> .......... gives permission denied
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Digital Unix V4.0 F box.
> I have been trying to delete (logged in as root) a directory which
> has thousands of sub-directories under it without any data.
> Root owns this directory, but i am still unable to delete. Using "
> rm -r * " gives me a strict "Permission Denied" message for every
> recursive directory.
> Is there any other way to wipe this off???
> Also, kindly let me know why such a message appears even though
> i(root) own this directory.
>
> Regards,
> Rekha
>
> The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing
>
Received on Wed Jun 13 2001 - 05:11:34 NZST