Well you r best judge of that. Usually maintenance work can be done during non-business hours.

shutdown -rF now
-bash: shutdown: command not found

Run the command as root. The command shutdown is in /sbin and usually
only root has access to that directory...
Also,what OS are you using?

Hey proactiveaditya,

this is not my own webserver.
The server belongs to 1+1 (Webhoster) and I can not login as root...

Next week I will call the Hotline from 1+1, maybe they can delete the directory.

Thank you very much!

Regards,
Joe

Works fine here:

neo@www:/tmp# mkdir a
neo@www:/tmp# touch a/file.txt
neo@www:/tmp# rm -r a
neo@www:/tmp#

ls -la views

Is your directory nfs or samba mounted? I that case, you wouldn't be able to delete the directory.

Type mount with no options or showmount to get some clues. showmount might not work if you aren't root.

Maybe you could cat /etc/fstab, and look for nfs mounts. If the directory is automounted, it's a little more complex. Either way, the hosting provider probably would have to remove the directory for you.

Hmmmm....
or....

Maybe your directory is a filesystem mounted by itself (likely). I don't think you could delete it if that's the case. (I'm a little rusty) I think you would have to unmount it, and then delete the mount point. Type "df" to show all mounted file systems.