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Bug #256

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rmdir: empty: Operation not permitted

Added by elekktretterr almost 18 years ago. Updated over 17 years ago.

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Description

I cant delete a directory called empty.

porncatalog# rmdir empty
rmdir: empty: Operation not permitted

porncatalog# rm -rf empty
recursively remove empty? y
rm: empty: Operation not permitted

porncatalog# ls -la
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jul 23 18:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jul 23 18:44 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 22 18:34 empty

Im su root.

Whats the problem?

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Updated by corecode about 18 years ago

[...]

Whats the problem?

  1. ls -ldo empty
    dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel schg 512 Apr 3 2003 empty

i bet it is chflag(1) schg.

cheers
simon

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