How to delete a Symbolic link

[Steve Tang]

Good day!

after the fail of NFS remote directory mounting the directory "/cdrom" it changed to Symbolic link like that:

"lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 22 02:42 cdrom"


then I want to see the cdrom by "cd /cdrom"
it prompt out
"NFS readlink fail for server (pid939@/cdrom): RPC Unable to receive."

how to delele the Symbolic link "cdrom" now ?

[Steven E. Protter]

Not quite sure I understand.

root user should be able to delete anything. If its on the remote box, log on that box as root. If you don't have root priv on the box, inform the admin.

I think the problem may be a state NFS link, which means you may need to umount and then mount the remote filesystem. If that server is back up.

SEP

[twang]

# ln -s /dev/null temp
# ll temp
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 9 Aug 22 12:47 temp -> /dev/null
# rm temp
# ll temp
temp not found
#

[Umapathy S]

Steve,
I dont see any problem in deleting a soft link. Its is a stale NFS link. If you restart the NFS service then this will go away. Is automount turned on for this?

HTH,
Umapathy

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

#fuser -k /cdrom

restart the NFS services

[Steve Tang]

yes automount turned on

[Steve Tang]

so, now I need to restart the NFS ? what will happen when restart NFS? will other the process in the server will affect ?

[Steve Tang]

I done the
"#fuser -k /cdrom"
it prompt out

"/cdrom: stat: NO such file or directory"
"fuser: could not find or access the file /cdrom."

but when i use "ls -l"
I can see that

"lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 22 02:42 cdrom"
..?

[Steve Tang]

push please help

[Steve Tang]

I solve the problem . when I turn off the automount.
thanks UmapathyS.