I ran into problems with rm -r on nfs mounted file systems: F1/cpl0298_home> mkdir test F1/cpl0298_home> mkdir test/test1 F1/cpl0298_home> cp test1/testfile test F1/cpl0298_home> cp test1/testfile test/test1 F1/cpl0298_home> rm -R -f test rm: reading directory `test/test1': Unknown error 525 rm: reading directory `test': Unknown error 525 only the 2 files but not the directories are deleted (-r shows same behaviour) F1/cpl0298_home> /bin/rm --version rm (coreutils) 4.5.8 Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Richard Stallman, and Jim Meyering.
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. On local file systems this version does work F1/cpl0298_home> ./rm --version rm (fileutils) 4.1 Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Richard Stallman, and Jim Meyering. Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. the old version does work on NFS mounted file systems as well The system is SuSE 8.2 with glibc 2.3.2, version 4.1 of rm has been copied from SuSE 8.0 (glibc 2.2.5) and runs with glibc 2.3.2. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Axel PHILIPP Geb. 044/557 MTU Aero Engines GmbH Informationswirtschaft/Entwicklungssysteme (FIE) Information Management/Engineering Systems (FIE) Dachauer Str. 665 80995 Muenchen Germany Tel +49 (0)89 1489-4715 Fax +49 (0)89 1489-97533 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
