Re: How to remove read lock files

[Larry Jones]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> On the cvs server in mydir there are three read lock files (
> #cvs.rfl.Compaq1.12069,  #cvs.rfl.Compaq1.12073,  #cvs.rfl.Compaq1.12137)
> that are owned by pubcvs and have privileges of 666.  As root, I do a 'rm
> -f'.  I do not get any errors message but the files do not get deleted.  I
> also tried to delete the pids (12069 etc) but they are not current
> processes.

Try it without the -f so you get the error message from rm.

-Larry Jones

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