[Perl-unix-users] Re: A tough question...

2005-09-30 Thread Arijit Das
It deletes everything recursively down.   Its not always the same directory but it is always the current directory (pwd)   -ArijitSteve Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Arijit Das wrote:> > ...its a directory tree that gets deleted.Does it delete just one level or are there sub directories that ge

[Perl-unix-users] Re: A tough question...

2005-09-29 Thread Arijit Das
Thanks a lot folks for your suggesstions   Jeff is correct...its a directory tree that gets deleted. To worsen the situation, I don't have root access to the system to do stuffs like recompiling perl binary, putting in handlers to be executed by the kernel b4 executing any unlink system call.  

[Perl-unix-users] Re: A tough question...

2005-09-29 Thread Jeff D
Steve, Agreed a FILE can be deleted/rewritten in this manner, but according to his message, I'm pretty sure that he is discussing a log DIRECTORY. Jeff --- Steve Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Look for all files (.pl?, .c?) and grep for > unlink/r

[Perl-unix-users] Re: A tough question...

2005-09-29 Thread Jeff D
Ditto to what Brian says about changing perms on the directory. A bit of a brute force method here, but if you're scrapped for time and don't want to wait for the deletion attempt to take place, you could also try doing a "find grep" from your MySystem directory. Look for all files (.pl?, .c?) an