rm: cannot remove `/siebel/sfs/tmp/dump': Directory not empty
No matter how many times i run this rm -rf /siebel/sfs/tmp/dump it succeeds when i expect it only the first time to succeed becoz i expect the second to fail as the directory should be gone in the first run.
i had earlier mentioned the rm -rf /siebel/sfs/tmp/dump which I later commented out however with no rm -rf /siebel/sfs/tmp/dump in my scripts so why do i still get
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rm: cannot remove `/siebel/sfs/tmp/dump': Directory not empty
I had earlier noticed this error during my script runtime
Below is all where "dump" is used in my scripts
Can you suggest whats wrong.
I also remember once seeing the Device busy error but not sure if it is related to this problem.
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