file owner 1058???

[Richard S. Crawford]

James Mckenzie said:
> Richard said about removing files [file owner 1058???]\
>>> like  i said, i tried to build mplayer  before  and a whole lot of
>>> problems. so i scrapped all of it and went a different way
>>> here is the output you asked for..
>>>
>>> -- [root at localhost Trash]# ls -la
>>> total 24
>>> drwx------  2 jim jim 4096 Dec 28 09:46 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x  3 jim jim 4096 Jan  6 11:31 ..
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 jim jim 1524 Jan  1 12:40 .directory
>>> [root at localhost Trash]# pwd
>>> /home/jim/Desktop/Trash
>>> [root at localhost Trash]# rm *
>>> rm: cannot lstat `*': No such file or directory
>>> [root at localhost Trash]#
>>
>>This is why I suggested cc'ing your messages to the fedora list (which
>> I see you've done).  You've moved beyond my skill level with this one.
>> :)
>
> Jim can try the following in the .Trash directory:
>
> rm .*
>
> This should remove the .directory entry.  A plain * will not remove this
> entry for some reason.  AND HE SHOULD NOT USE rm -rf .*.  This will
> clean out the directory that Trash exists in, including any
> subdirectories (hope you have a good backup!)

I'd never recommend rm -rf .* to anyone when they're logged in as root. 
Having done the

# rm -rf /*

myself -- at work, even -- I'm far too aware of the pain that can cause.

Fortunately, I still have my job.




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