Hi all,
While playing with my LINUX machine i accidently deleted a file name called /etc/passwd . Even though the system is booted am unable to get the login prompt. Is there any remedy for this problem.:( (5 Replies)
Hiiii,
I have written a script which takes backup of some log files.
let say the backuplocation is ---
/abc/backuplocation
-rw-r--r-- 1 webmut2 spgroup 0 Jan 27 02:41 ansrpt23994.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 webmut2 spgroup 0 Jan 27 02:41 ansrpt3601.log
-rw-r--r-- 1... (2 Replies)
Hi,
We have a file which needs supper user previleges to delete. There are 10 users having super user preveleges. Some times back that file got deleted. How to know who has deleted that file? (6 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have an user's home directory set to /home/A
And A contains the following directories B & C
Is there some way in solaris by which i can prevent the directories B and C from getting deleted by the user but the contents of the directories B & C can be deleted ?
Also i have... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using Fedora Core and Windows Xp. I deleted all the files from root
directory. When i am trying to restart the computer it showing some grub > prompt. What i will do ? I have lots of data in XP OS.
Please help me
i used
# rm * (8 Replies)
Hi,
I am having a problem in the below code:-.
$ cat x.csv
baseball,NULL,8798765,Most played,0,5,12367,NULL,NULL,98,67,Reason is not sufficient
baseball,NULL,8928192,Most played,0,4,76893,NULL,RAW,54,78,Reason is not sufficient
baseball,NULL,5678945,Most played,9,2,1,6,NULL,6789,123,Reason... (4 Replies)
I accidentally deleted a very important directory today with this rm -r. What would be the recommended way to recover my directory? After a lot of googleing I have seen these choices. Could I get some recommendations please?
Testdisk
Photorec- Doesn't recover file name like I would like. ... (10 Replies)
One of my directory code where i have stored all my scripts have disappeared . I have no idea on how it got deleted.Could someone pls help me to track-back on what would have happened? I left the office yesterday and today when i just logged in to work with the scripts I could not find the... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: michaelrozar17
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explain_rmdir_or_die
explain_rmdir_or_die(3) Library Functions Manual explain_rmdir_or_die(3)NAME
explain_rmdir_or_die - delete a directory and report errors
SYNOPSIS
#include <libexplain/rmdir.h>
void explain_rmdir_or_die(const char *pathname);
DESCRIPTION
The explain_rmdir_or_die function is used to call the rmdir(2) system call. On failure an explanation will be printed to stderr, obtained
from explain_rmdir(3), and then the process terminates by calling exit(EXIT_FAILURE).
This function is intended to be used in a fashion similar to the following example:
explain_rmdir_or_die(pathname);
pathname
The pathname, exactly as to be passed to the rmdir(2) system call.
Returns:
This function only returns on success. On failure, prints an explanation and exits.
SEE ALSO rmdir(2)
delete a directory
explain_rmdir(3)
explain rmdir(2) errors
exit(2) terminate the calling process
COPYRIGHT
libexplain version 0.52
Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Miller
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