Crappy softlinks

dajomu · 08-16-2005, 03:14 PM

I made a softlink "ln -s" from the directory /var/www/html/public_html --> /home/ddd/public_html
but now I want to delete public_html so I tried;

Code:

rmdir /var/www/html/public_html but I got the error:
rmdir: `public_html/': Not a directory

Then I tried;

Code:

rm -d /var/www/html/public_html but I got the error:
rm: cannot remove directory `public_html/': Is a directory

Any solutions out there?

DaJoMu

Tinkster · 08-16-2005, 03:18 PM

How exactly did you issue the
ln
?
And what does
ls -ld /var/www/html
have to say about it?

Cheers,
Tink

dajomu · 08-16-2005, 03:33 PM

I issued the softlink in this manner

Code:

ln -s /home/ddd/public_html /var/www/html/public_html

Code:

ls -ld /var/www/html/public_html  
drwxr-xr-x  2 ddd ddd 4096 Aug 15 19:49 /var/www/html/public_html/

Code:

ls -ld /var/www/html
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4096 Aug 15 20:18 /var/www/html/

yes, I am logged on as root.

Tinkster · 08-16-2005, 03:38 PM

How bizarre :)

That's an actual directory. And ln -s should have failed.

rm -rf /var/www/html/public_html
should work.

Cheers,
Tink

dajomu · 08-16-2005, 03:50 PM

Code:

rm -rf /var/www/html/public_html/
rm: cannot remove `/var/www/html/public_html/': Not a directory

I could probably just leave it like this, but if anyone got
other suggestions that would be nice?

Let me say this is a Clarkconnect 3.1 server

Code:

uname -a
Linux gateway.xxx.xxx  2.6.9-19.cc #1 Fri Jul 8 18:40:48 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux