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when i want to delete folder i get massages "permission denied"
i try with rm -rf

and rm -r see:
dilyan@infinity:~/public_html$ rm -r zadqlkane/
rm: descend into write-protected directory `zadqlkane//administrator/components/com_zoom'?

thank you advanced!

you cannot delete dirs which has open files or you dont have write permision to. Check for both and look if you still have problems.

i try but no effect

Maybe try to delete it trought FTP, or SFTP.

Dilyan wrote:when i want to delete folder i get massages "permission denied"
i try with rm -rf

and rm -r see:
dilyan@infinity:~/public_html$ rm -r zadqlkane/
rm: descend into write-protected directory `zadqlkane//administrator/components/com_zoom'?

thank you advanced!

go into /administrator/components/com_zoom and delete some files until you find the one that is keeping you from removing the directory. Then ask Tim to remove that file.

Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `mambo//templates/bulgaria_103/images/readon.png': Permission
denied
rm: cannot remove `mambo//templates/bulgaria_103/images/spacer.png': Permission
denied
rm: cannot remove `mambo//templates/bulgaria_103/images/tabbar_bg.gif': Permissi
on denied
rm: cannot remove `mambo//templates/bulgaria_103/images/th_bg.png': Permission d
enied
rm: cannot remove `mambo//templates/bulgaria_103/images/top.gif': Permission den
ied
rm: cannot remove `mambo//templates/bulgaria_103/css/template.css': Permission d
enied
rm: cannot remove `mambo//templates/bulgaria_103/css/joomla-bg.css': Permission
denied

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problem is for all files in folder

chmod 755 thedir/*

dilyan@infinity:~/domains/dilyan.phoenix-hosting.org$ chmod 755 archive/*
dilyan@infinity:~/domains/dilyan.phoenix-hosting.org$ rm -rf archive/
rm: cannot remove `archive//Joomla/modules/mod_cucolive/images/JPY.gif': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `archive//Joomla/modules/mod_cucolive/images/LTL.gif': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `archive//Joomla/modules/mod_cucolive/images/LVL.gif': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `archive//Joomla/modules/mod_cucolive/images/MTL.gif': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `archive//Joomla/modules/mod_cucolive/images/NOK.gif': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `archive//Joomla/modules/mod_cucolive/images/NZD.gif': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `archive//Joomla/modules/mod_cucolive/images/PLN.gif': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `archive//Joomla/modules/mod_cucolive/images/ROL.gif': Permission denied

....

there is a problem with mambo or joomla, whatever... if you upload templates and modules over the admin panel, you cant manually delete it then... I didnt figure out a way to do this... do the admins have an idea? i didnt try this on infinity because i dont have an account but this error appers on all servers...

I can't remember if chmod works the same as chown in this situation but meh...

chmod -R 755 ~/domains/dilyan.phoenix-hosting.org
rm -fr archive

first off find out what the setings currently are:

use ls -l to get something like the following:

ravenhair@infinity:~$ ls -l
total 112
drwx--x--x 3 ravenhair ravenhair 4096 2005-12-28 10:28 domains
-rw-r--r-- 1 ravenhair ravenhair 2518 2005-12-28 16:21 index.html
drwx------ 2 ravenhair ravenhair 4096 2005-12-28 10:28 mail
drwxr-xr-x 15 ravenhair ravenhair 4096 2005-12-28 16:19 perl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ravenhair ravenhair 115 2005-12-29 08:45 phoenixip.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ravenhair ravenhair 51 2005-12-28 10:28 public_html -> ./domains/ravenhair.phoenix-hosting.org/public_html


Short version is that this shows that I am the owner and group for all these files / directories.

-rwxr-xr-x shows the permissions on the file. check url]http://www.perlfect.com/articles/chmod.shtml[/url] for help understanding how the permissions are shown and apllied.

then if you are the owner you can reset the permissions using chmod.

try CHMOD 777 by FTP..777 is full deleteble and writable...
good luck

chmod 755 thedir/* doesn`t work ?!?!

BrajanBG wrote:chmod 755 thedir/* doesn`t work ?!?!

As Tim pointed out; use the " -R " flag in chmod; which makes the file permissions recursive. Once the files have been changed then you should be able to rm -rf the directory.

IE: chmod -R 600 DirName && rm -rf DirName

PS: No files should be in use; aka no application should be using said files; so kill the actual application; then do the steps listed in the above example.

Let us know how it goes.
Regards,
Pete