[Sunhelp] Silly Doubt

[Jarrett Carver]

Is the directory automounted or NFS mounted? In which case root on the local 
machine won't have permission to remove it, you will need to go on the file 
server as root.


>From: Balaji srinivasan <chennai_dude at excite.com>
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>To: "sunhelp, sunhelp" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: [Sunhelp] Silly Doubt
>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:10:44 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi Admins,
>           I have ran out of memeory here...I am facing a peculiar problem
>here. It's a Solaris 2.6 box, in a users home directory there's file owned
>by root:other. The user does'nt want them so when I went to delete it it
>says not owner!!. I tried rm -f even that said not owner. Then I tried
>changing the ownership to the user even then it said not owner.
>
>Even though it's silly,it's killing me. Am I overlooking something?.
>Request your help in getting a solution to this irritant.
>
>Thanks,
>Balaji
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Jarrett Carver           http://www.geocities.com/solarboyz1
solarboyz1 at hotmail.com   Unix/NT Systems Administrator
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