[BusyBox] rm -rf confused by directories without "x" bit set.
Paul Dickson
dickson at permanentmail.com
Wed Nov 12 08:14:12 UTC 2003
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 13:22:30 -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> I ran buildroot as me (not as root), and it created a file that rm -rf won't
> delete.
>
> [landley at dhcppc4 busybox]$ ./busybox rm -rf ../../../buildroot/build_i386
> rm: unable to stat
> `../../../buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/lib/pkgconfig/openssl.pc':
> Permission denied
> rm: unable to remove
> ../../../buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/lib/
> total 4
> drw-r--r-- 2 landley landley 4096 Nov 9 06:37 pkgconfig
>
> Any suggestions?
Delete as root.
I have the same problem from a normal RH9 system, this is not a busybox
problem.
I not sure why openssl does this, but I'm leaving it until either I
understand why the permissions are set this way or openssl fixes this.
-Paul
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