From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FA9qZ-0002Jk-Ek for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:56:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1HHtLej017397; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:55:21 GMT Received: from um1.unlimitedmail.net (139.Red-80-26-111.staticIP.rima-tde.net [80.26.111.139]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1HHnZIA003891 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:49:36 GMT Received: from ppp.zz ([137.204.208.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by um1.unlimitedmail.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1HGPYNB007885 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:25:37 +0100 From: Etaoin Shrdlu 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200602171546.44603.uwix@iway.na> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602171742.39999.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-From: shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org X-Archives-Salt: c89bf797-a6ac-4694-b62a-5e651aa0e3f9 X-Archives-Hash: 4cf49e381b3ac2af57d7d523e4422d46 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). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list