[SunHELP] Permission denied as root

[Bashar]

	is /var is a mount point?


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On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Steve Wingate wrote:

> 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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