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Old 10-22-2011
delete unix directory
I installed membersgear into my website and decided it was not right for me. I issued rm -r on directory membersgear and it deleted everything except the subdirectory templates_c. I have found several directories in this directory which are named like %%114. Ownership on these directories drwxr-xr-x 32 pdinardo users 8192 Oct 21 22:08 ..
drwxrwxrwx 3 paul users 4096 Oct 21 19:31 .
drwxrwxrwx 13 paul users 4096 Oct 21 19:27 templates_c. When I go into templates_c and do a ls -lta I get
drwxr-x--x 3 apache apache 4096 Oct 21 19:27 %%170
drwxr-x--x 3 apache apache 4096 Oct 21 19:27 %%329
drwxr-x--x 3 apache apache 4096 Oct 21 19:26 %%237
drwxr-x--x 3 apache apache 4096 Oct 21 19:26 %%256
drwxr-x--x 3 apache apache 4096 Oct 21 19:25 %%158
drwxr-x--x 3 apache apache 4096 Oct 21 19:23 %%221
drwxr-x--x 4 apache apache 4096 Oct 21 19:23 %%138
drwxr-x--x 3 apache apache 4096 Oct 21 19:11 %%136
drwxr-x--x 3 apache apache 4096 Oct 21 19:11 %%114
drwxr-x--x 3 apache apache 4096 Oct 21 19:11 %%287.
How do I delete these directories?
# 2  
Old 10-22-2011
Code:
rmdir [%][%]*

?
# 3  
Old 10-22-2011
I did rmdir [%][%]*
I get:
rmdir: %%114: Directory not empty
rmdir: %%136: Directory not empty
rmdir: %%138: Directory not empty
rmdir: %%158: Directory not empty
rmdir: %%170: Directory not empty
rmdir: %%221: Directory not empty
rmdir: %%224: Directory not empty
rmdir: %%237: Directory not empty
rmdir: %%256: Directory not empty
rmdir: %%287: Directory not empty
rmdir: %%329: Directory not empty
Are there hidden files that need to be deleted?

---------- Post updated at 08:49 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:07 AM ----------

When I go into one of the subdirectory I try to do ls ls -a and I get
ls: .: Permission denied
[pdinardo@login1 %%114]$ ls -a
ls: .: Permission denied
# 4  
Old 10-22-2011
as apache user :
Code:
rm -rf [%][%]*

Note that you cannot remove a directory you currently are in
# 5  
Old 10-23-2011
I get permission denied.
# 6  
Old 10-23-2011
Do it as root user or ask your administrator to clean it up for you.

---------- Post updated at 07:12 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:10 PM ----------

If you already are root then
Code:
chown -R root:root [%][%]*
chmod -R 700 [%][%]*

and then
Code:
rm -rf [%][%]*

 
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