[SunHELP] Permission denied as root

[Steve Wingate]

Why in God's name would you want to removed /var? One can only assume that it's /var you're trying to delete since you don't tell us which directory you're in. Chances are something in that directory is being used. 


On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 12:02:53 -0900
"Matthew Schumacher" <schu at schu.net> wrote:

> Ok, I don't understand how this could be.  Isn't root like god?
> 
> # ls -al | grep var
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other        512 Nov  7 09:15 var
> 
> # rm -rf var
> rm: Unable to remove directory var: Permission denied
> 
> # /usr/ucb/whoami
> root
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> schu
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