nyahahah...... nasanay sa <TAB>.... kanina pa umaga yun ah... dami ko
na nabasa....
thanks..
On 5/4/06, JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/4/06, jhuniepi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i created a symlink as root in a dir test. that symlink is owned by
> root.root. but the target directory is owned by cj.cj. why do rm
> cannot remove a symlink?
> i want to remove it so that i can create one as user cj.
> is there something that i missed?
>
> TIA
>
> here's the output of my commands
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]# ls -la
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 4 14:01 .
> drwxr-x--- 24 root root 4096 May 4 13:56 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 May 4 14:00 symlink -> /home/cj/symlink/dir/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]# rm symlink/
> rm: cannot remove directory `symlink/': Is a directory
When you have a symlink pointing to a directory, adding the trailing
slash will treat the symlink like its target (the directory). Without
it, you actually touch the symlink and not the target. See the
attached typescript session.
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is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there
is no limit to oppression.
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