Hi Lee,

This is a known bug and a patch is available.  The original patch was MPEKXL0A,
but this has now been superseded by MPEKXX4A.

- Mark B.

Lee Courtney wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm having problem with the rm -r command not removing nested directories in
> the POSIX domain. I'm pretty sure there's a patch for the following
> problem - anyone know the patch ID? Here's an example:
>
> shell/iX> pwd
> /POSIXTST/PUB
> shell/iX> mkdir level1
> shell/iX> mkdir level1/level2
> shell/iX> ls -lR .
> .:
> total 1
> drwxrwx---   3 MANAGER.POSIXTST  POSIXTST     320 Jan 15 16:08 level1
>
> ./level1:
> total 1
> drwxrwx---   2 MANAGER.POSIXTST  POSIXTST     224 Jan 15 16:08 level2
>
> ./level1/level2:
> total 0
> shell/iX> rm -r level1
> rm: cannot remove directory "level1": Permission denied
> shell/iX>
>
> The correct behavior is for the directories to be removed, but rm balks.
> This system is running 5.5, and since SWINFO is missing (a loaner machine
> from HP) so I'm assuming no patches have been installed. I've tried this
> other systems running 5.5 and 6.0 and rm -r works fine. Thanks for any leads
> or pointers.
>
> Lee "Vendor not boycotting 3000-L, I need the help!" Courtney
> Monterey Software Group Inc.
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