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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support rm -rf issues Post 302470352 by flekzout on Tuesday 9th of November 2010 09:40:48 PM
Old 11-09-2010
what type of account do you use? besides that if you use root it should not be prompted with that since -f stands for Force. hm.. can you give more details?
 

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setuidgid(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      setuidgid(8)

NAME
setuidgid - runs another program under a specified account's uid and gid. SYNOPSIS
setuidgid account child DESCRIPTION
account is a single argument. child consists of one or more arguments. setuidgid sets its uid and gid to account's uid and gid, removing all supplementary groups. It then runs child. setuidgid cannot be run by anyone other than root. EXIT CODES
setuidgid exits 111 if it cannot find a UNIX account named account, if it cannot setgid, if it cannot setuid, or if it cannot run child. Otherwise its exit code is the same as that of child. SEE ALSO
supervise(8), svc(8), svok(8), svstat(8), svscanboot(8), svscan(8), readproctitle(8), fghack(8), pgrphack(8), multilog(8), tai64n(8), tai64nlocal(8), envuidgid(8), envdir(8), softlimit(8), setlock(8) http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html setuidgid(8)
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