Error in moving a file

[Pando]

I was trying to move a file but i got the error:

mv: POST011-200_0446_PR0138_20041118_125135.txt: cannot unlink: No such file or directory

The file was there and I have no idea about the error.

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[Sunil Sharma_1]

Hi,

It seems this file is sym link and source file is no more present.

Sunil

[Steven E. Protter]

someone whacked the file while you were moving it.

Perhaps the link was circular.

SEP

[Pando]

Is there a way to move it by force?

[twang]

check to see whether it is a symbolic link:
# ll POST011-200_0446_PR0138_20041118_125135.txt

then, make a symbolic link from your target dir:
# ln -s /target_dir/POST011-200_0446_PR0138_20041118_125135.txt

[john korterman]

Hi,
would the file by any chance be physically located in an NFS mounted directory?
Just a thought...

regards,
John K.

[Pando]

Hello John K.,

The file is located in Windows 2003 server. I've used CIFS client to mount it to my HP-UX server.

Fernan

[john korterman]

Hi again,
I must admit that I know very little about NFS, but my guess is that the user who tried to delete the file does not have the proper rights to do so on the windows server. Can that be checked?


regards,
John K.

[Fred Ruffet]

This may be related to 8car filename length or case non-sensitive Windows.

what is the result of those commands ?
ls -l POST*
id
(in the directory)

Regards,

Fred

[Ivajlo Yanakiev]

Move file from windows server if you can