On Friday 17 February 2006 16:35, Marco Calviani wrote:

> Since we're here and you're expert in this field, i would like to ask
> you if, like me, you experience problem in deleting the
> /etc/splash/default symlink:
>
> # rm -rf default/
> rm: cannot remove `default/': Not a directory
>
> How is it possible?

Well, the message is correct. Look:

# rm -rf default/
rm: cannot remove `default/': Not a directory
# rm -rf default
#

If you include the trailing slash, rm thinks that you are asking it to 
delete a directory, which "default" is not (it's a symlink).
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