Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!utrcu1!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer From: klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte -- Universiteit Twente) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Unable to remove directories in V1.5 Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 08:36:32 GMT References: <1991Mar6.105044@mobius.Viewlogic.COM> Sender: news@utrcu1.UUCP Organization: University of Twente, BSC-El Lines: 26 In <1991Mar6.105044@mobius.Viewlogic.COM> greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin) writes: >Hi all, >I've got a fairly bizarre problem with V1.5: I cannot remove any >directory that I create! This can be duplicated if I am user "root" >or user "ast". "root" cannot remove directories with 777 protection! >My umask for "root" is 0000. The umask for "ast" is "0022". >What's going on here? >PS: If I am "ast" and create a directory, then "su" to root, "root" > cannot remove a 777 directory owned by "ast"!! I've tried rmdir > and "rm -rf". (Your directories are empty, aren't they?) I encountered the same problem in upgrading from minix-st 1.1 -> 1.5.0 -> 1.5.10. Using the 1.5.10 version of the appropriate programs solved the problem. Klamer -- Klamer Schutte Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl {backbone}!mcsun!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer