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Operating Systems Solaris Directory cannot be deleted!!! Post 302553029 by gabam on Tuesday 6th of September 2011 11:56:26 AM
Old 09-06-2011
Directory cannot be deleted!!!

Friends,
I have accidently, as root, created a directory gabsf under /home. Now I cannot delete this thing, I have tried rm and rmdir, as well as explicit path name, but it is really undeleteable. Here is what ls -l says.

Code:
 
# ls -l /home
total 6
drwxr-xr-x   2 dawood   dawood       2 Sep  5 20:00 dawood
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root           2 Sep  5 20:01 gabsf
#

and here is the output of file

Code:
 
# file /home/gabsf
/home/gabsf:    cannot open: No such file or directory
#

the output of rm -r,
# rm -r /home/gabsf
/home/gabsf: No such file or directory
#

output of rmdir -r command

Code:
 
# rmdir -r /home/gabsf
rmdir: illegal option -- r
Usage: rmdir [-ps] dirname ...
#

Looking forward to your wonderful replies.
Thanks!
 

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createhomedir(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 					  createhomedir(1)

NAME
createhomedir -- create and populate home directories on the local computer. SYNOPSIS
createhomedir [-scbalh] [-n directoryDomainName] [-u username] DESCRIPTION
createhomedir provides several options for creating and populating home directories. OPTIONS
-s creates home directories for server home paths only (default). -c creates home directories for local home paths only. -b creates home directories for both server and local home paths. -a creates home directories for users defined in all directory domains of the server's search path. -l creates home directories for users defined in the local directory domain. -n directoryDomainName creates home directories for users defined in a specific directory domain in the server's search path. -u username creates a home directory for a specific user defined in the domain(s) identified in the -a, -l, or -n parameter. If you omit the -a, -l, and -n parameters when you use the -u parameter, -a is assumed. -i reads username list from standard input and creates specified home directories. Each username should be on its own line. -h usage help. FILES
/usr/sbin/createhomedir location of tool CAVEATS
When using the -a option, search limits of various directory servers (such as Open Directory or Active Directory) can prevent all possible home directories from being created. In this case, you may need to specify the usernames explicitly. Mac OS X June 1, 2019 Mac OS X
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