Remove a link

[Ramesh_1]

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

[John Carr_2]

Hi

have you tried the force option

rm -f download

logged in as root of course

cheers
john.

[Steven Gillard_2]

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

Regards,
Steve

[Clemens van Everdingen]

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.

[Heiner E. Lennackers]

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

[John Carr_2]

Hi

also you cannot remove it if its being accessed.

fuser -c /download

Then do

fuser -k


cheers
John.

[John Strang]

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

[Ramesh_1]

Hi ,

Tried the suggestions.But didn't work.

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

Thanx
Ramesh

[steven Burgess_2]

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