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Old 12-05-2006, 12:37 PM   #1
Luvz2Fly
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Angry Can't Delete Directory SymLink


Help!

I created a symlink to a directory and that seemed to make bad things happen

Starting from From inside: /var/www/vhost/domain-2.com/httpdocs

>> ln-s /var/www/vhost/domain-1.com/httpdocs/images .


I wanted to share images between 2 virtual domains so i created a symlink from one image directory to another - when I try and delete it I get conflicting errors:


rm images/
rm: cannot remove directory `images/': Is a directory

rm -rf images/
rm: cannot remove `images/': Not a directory

rmdir images/
rmdir: `images/': Not a directory

mv images/ images2
mv: cannot move `images' to `images2': Not a directory

Then I tried this for fun...
mkdir blarg
mv blarg/ images/
(NO ERRORS REPORTED - But 'ls' showed no change)

Then I deleted all images in main directory and tried to delete link - still nothing


I Quit!
(I am Using Red Hat)

Last edited by Luvz2Fly; 12-05-2006 at 12:39 PM.
 
Old 12-05-2006, 12:40 PM   #2
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remove the trailing "/" with it, it's used as a directory, without it, it's a symlink.
 
Old 12-05-2006, 12:45 PM   #3
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Don't I feel like the lazy idiot for using AUTO COMPLETE
That did it - Thanks so much!!
 
  


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