Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!rvdp From: rvdp@cs.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: rmdir problem in SCO UNIX Message-ID: <7729@star.cs.vu.nl> Date: 25 Sep 90 12:10:51 GMT Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Lines: 16 I booted my Compaq Syspro 386 with an emergency boot floppy and tried to remove a directory both with rm an with rmdir. However, I get the error message: rmdir: setuid(2) failed, Not owner Can anybody tell me what the problem is? -rwx--x--x bin bin rm -rws--x--x root sys rmdir id tells me that I am really and effectively root (0). -- Ronald van der Pol