[SunHELP] Permission denied as root

[Bret Adams]

As far as I know, as long as that dir is not the mount point itself, you 
should be able to clean out directories and remove those dir.  But if the 
files are write protected in any of the dir or subdir the command will fail.

At 01:12 PM 12/4/01 -0900, you wrote:
>Ok,
>
>God no, var isn't /var, its the var in my home directory, and no it is not 
>a mount point.
>
>I forgot that my home dir is nfs mounted so the description below is 
>obviously the problem, however I don't understand how uid -2 works.  I 
>didn't notice a uid of -2, so what is to deal with that?
>
>Thanks for the help btw,
>
>schu
>
>Nicholas Dronen wrote:
>
>>
>>Root is indeed like God, but God has created a universe
>>in which even He obeys his rules.  When on the 8th day
>>God created NFS, he ordained that system administrators --
>>the tidy angels of the the budding computer universe --
>>have the power to prevent God from removing the files
>>they export to God's machine over the network.  Thus,
>>one of God's many names is uid -2.
>>Regards,
>>Nicholas Dronen
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