Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C36B99.FF82A1EB" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Subject: RE: Failing to delete files that is hold by makegroup Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:19:25 +0200 Message-ID: <5AC9A01A8B1175418B4DF7F45DD94D5F1E5365@srvexch1.nanoteq.co.za> X-MS-Has-Attach: yes X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Johan Kruger" To: ------_=_NextPart_001_01C36B99.FF82A1EB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I include two text files of directories that shows different attributes = in the patrent directory that does not want to delete, maybe this is = where the problem starts. Thanks, Johan Kruger Nanoteq=20 Tel (Direct) : +27 12 672 7281 Tel (Operator) : +27 12 672 7000 Fax : +27 12 665 1343=20 Mobile : +27 82 893 4770=20 http:\\www.nanoteq.co.za -----Original Message----- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu] Sent: 25 August 2003 05:00 To: Johan Kruger Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Failing to delete files that is hold by makegroup On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Johan Kruger wrote: > Hi, > > Please help, on my Windows2000 machine a failed build script has left = a > directory on my machine that I am unable to delete, I have searched = the > internet, tried chmod to no avail, even tried shred. I am in a bit of > confusion at this stage. > > Thanks, > Johan Kruger Johan, What program do you use to delete directories? What message are you getting when you try to delete that directory? If you get "permission denied", what is the output of 'ls -ld '? What about 'getfacl '? Who is the owner of the directory? Igor --=20 http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his = route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton ------_=_NextPart_001_01C36B99.FF82A1EB Content-Type: text/plain; name="err.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: err.txt Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="err.txt" IyBmaWxlOiBiZmQKIyBvd25lcjogQWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvcnMKIyBncm91cDogbWtncm91cF9sX2QK dXNlcjo6LXctCnVzZXI6amtyOnJ3eApncm91cDo6LS0tCm1hc2s6cnd4Cm90aGVyOi0tLQpkZWZh dWx0OnVzZXI6OnJ3eApkZWZhdWx0Omdyb3VwOjpyLXgKZGVmYXVsdDpvdGhlcjpyLXgK ------_=_NextPart_001_01C36B99.FF82A1EB Content-Type: text/plain; name="err1.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: err1.txt Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="err1.txt" ------_=_NextPart_001_01C36B99.FF82A1EB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ ------_=_NextPart_001_01C36B99.FF82A1EB--