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From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:42:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602171742.39999.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da5cd1900602170735v2dec79c5v@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 17 February 2006 16:35, Marco Calviani wrote:

> Since we're here and you're expert in this field, i would like to ask
> you if, like me, you experience problem in deleting the
> /etc/splash/default symlink:
>
> # rm -rf default/
> rm: cannot remove `default/': Not a directory
>
> How is it possible?

Well, the message is correct. Look:

# rm -rf default/
rm: cannot remove `default/': Not a directory
# rm -rf default
#

If you include the trailing slash, rm thinks that you are asking it to 
delete a directory, which "default" is not (it's a symlink).
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-17 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-16 19:50 [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot Marco Calviani
2006-02-17  7:20 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-02-17  8:15   ` Marco Calviani
2006-02-17  8:58     ` Uwe Thiem
2006-02-17  9:16       ` Marco Calviani
2006-02-17 10:07         ` Uwe Thiem
2006-02-17 11:10           ` Marco Calviani
2006-02-17 13:46             ` Uwe Thiem
2006-02-17 15:35               ` Marco Calviani
2006-02-17 16:42                 ` Etaoin Shrdlu [this message]
2006-02-18 10:07                   ` Marco Calviani
2006-02-17 21:58                 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-02-17 23:03                   ` Manuel McLure
2006-02-17 18:25       ` Richard Fish
2006-02-17 18:58   ` [gentoo-user] " Simon Kellett
2006-02-17 22:11     ` Uwe Thiem

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