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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rmdir
rmdir(2) System Calls Manual rmdir(2)NAME
rmdir() - remove a directory file
SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION
The system call removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The directory must be empty (except for the files and before it can
be removed.
RETURN VALUE
returns the following values:
Successful completion.
Failure.
is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
If fails, is set to one of the following values.
[EACCES] A component of the path prefix denies search permission.
[EACCES] Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link to be removed.
[EACCES] The process does not have read/write access permission to the parent directory.
[EBUSY] The directory to be removed is the mount point for a mounted file system.
[EBUSY] The path is the current working directory.
[EEXIST] The named directory is not empty. It contains files other than and
[EFAULT] path points outside the process's allocated address space. The reliable detection of this error is implementation-
dependent.
[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the path name.
[ENAMETOOLONG] The length of the specified path name exceeds bytes, or the length of a component of the path name exceeds bytes
while is in effect.
[ENOENT] The named file does not exist.
[ENOTDIR] A component of the path is not a directory.
[EPERM] The directory containing the directory to be removed has the sticky bit set and neither the containing directory nor
the directory to be removed are owned by the effective user ID.
[EROFS] The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley and HP.
SEE ALSO mkdir(2), unlink(2), remove(3C), privileges(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE rmdir(2)