topic Remove a link in Operating System - HP-UX

Remove a link

Ramesh_1 — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:54:24 GMT

Hi All,

I'm trying to remove a link which has lost its link.
Here it is
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Feb 24 03:55 download
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Notice that the link is missing and the link cannot be removed.

Please enlighten on how to remove this link.

Thanx in advance
Ramesh

Re: Remove a link

John Carr_2 — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:59:44 GMT

Hi

have you tried the force option

rm -f download

logged in as root of course

cheers
john.

Re: Remove a link

Steven Gillard_2 — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:02:30 GMT

Running the 'unlink' command as root will take care of it.

Regards,
Steve

Re: Remove a link

Clemens van Everdingen — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:02:45 GMT

Hi,

what error you are getting ?

Try creating a bogus file the link was used to have.
And then rm the link as root.
Maybe use unlink as latest option.

C.

Re: Remove a link

Heiner E. Lennackers — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:04:28 GMT

Hi,

you can just delete the link which "rm".
If it points to a directory, just must NOT add the / !!
# rm download
should work fine.
You may also try the "unlink" command:
# unlink download

Heiner

Re: Remove a link

John Carr_2 — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:04:43 GMT

Hi

also you cannot remove it if its being accessed.

fuser -c /download

Then do

fuser -k

cheers
John.

Re: Remove a link

John Strang — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:06:42 GMT

Hi Ramesh,

Do you get an error when you try to remove the link? If so can you please let us know what the error is?

It should be possible to remove it as you have full permissions, but not if the file is in use by any process.

HTH,

John

Re: Remove a link

Ramesh_1 — Wed, 27 Mar 2002 02:27:37 GMT

Hi ,

Tried the suggestions.But didn't work.

A reboot of the server took care of the problem. Quite drastic though.

Thanx
Ramesh

Re: Remove a link

steven Burgess_2 — Wed, 27 Mar 2002 02:31:14 GMT

Ramesh

whilst on the topic of links

I've found a command that will search for all dead links on a system

find -type l -print | perl -nle ' -e || print ' > /tmp/deadlinks

Regards

Steve