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03-07-2006
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Sorry! Stupid question, but...
Hey everybody. I'm going through my system (Mac OS X 10.3.9, through the Terminal application) trying to get rid of instances of MySQL that I installed over each other. I was having trouble getting MySQL to work: it wasn't letting me set the password, then it wouldn't let me create new databases once I finally got it set up. I've tried everything and so now I'm wondering if maybe the redundant versions are conflicting with each other. So I'm going to erase all of them and reinstall. Problem is, I'm having difficulty deleting this one pesky link. It doesn't seem to go anywhere, but the shell won't let me kill it, even with sudo. Here's the code:
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lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 47 2 Mar 18:04 mysql -> mysql-standard-4.1.18-apple-darwin8.2.0-powerpc drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel 646 8 Nov 09:35 mysql-max-4.1.15-apple-darwin7.9.0-powerpc seans-Computer:/usr/local sean$ rm -r mysql rm: mysql: Permission denied seans-Computer:/usr/local sean$ sudo rm -r mysql -> mysql-standard-4.1.18-apple-darwin8.2.0-powerpc -bash: mysql-standard-4.1.18-apple-darwin8.2.0-powerpc: Permission denied Thanks! |
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03-07-2006
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To delete a file you need write permission to the directory that contains it. Do:
ls -ld . to see if you do. Using -r in this case is really odd but it should be harmless. Try dropping the -r. |
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