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>>> On Sunday 04 April 2004 06:47, li <linuxlingam> said:
li> have created a symbolic link using ln -s to a directory called
'images' li> into /var/www/html
li>
li> i wish to delete this symbolic link: /var/www/html/images
li>
li> have tried rmdir, rm -fR, ln -f, read thru the man pages of rm, ln,
li> tried a mv, but all fail. and am doing all these as root.
li>
li> what's the way of deleting this symbolic link, please?
li>
check mode of the symlink. should be 0777 i.e. lrwxrwxrwx
rmdir wont work with a link
`rm -Rf ` (or rm -f) should always work with softlinks. Strange!
`ln -f ` wont work. you need ` ln -sf `
what does " ls -ali /var/www/html/ " show??
set the variable MAXSYMLINKS to 25 and see what error you get. watch out for
ELOOP error.
finally, check if /var is mounted read-only.
or try using another shell instead of bash
Post the errors here if all fails.
regards,
bhaskar
p.s. maybe you can :: open konqueror or nautilus, browse to /var/www/html
directory and press the delete button with right index finger. Wait and see
what happens...
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