SUMMARY: Links won't go away

From: Ricardo Ruiz (rruiz@census.gov)
Date: Thu Feb 16 1995 - 05:52:24 CST


This is my original question:

> I have a SPARC 20 running SunOS v4.1.3_U1. How do I delete symbolic links
> created by automount? I modified auto.direct and some links are not used
> anymore. When I try to remove them, I get the message:
>
> rm: /bcimages/disk10 not removed: Read-only file system
>
> The -f option did not help. The command ls -lF /bcimages/disk10 returns
> the following output:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 20 Feb 10 17:06 /bcimages/disk10@
>
> Any suggestions?

The consensus is to restart the automount (killing it sending a SIGTERM.

        kill -TERM automount_pid
        automount &

If this does not work, I reboot is in order (two of my machines needed a
reboot).

Many thanks to:

Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child} <Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au>
Wayne Schmidt <wayne@internet.sbi.com>
Anchi Zhang <anchi@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
Arve Kjoelen <kjoelena@shiva.ee.siue.edu>
John T Wilder 312C M 209387 <j_wilder@tolstoy.mdc.com>
Guy Harris <guy@netapp.com>
Cindy Yoho <cindy@ddrsrv2.dny.rockwell.com>
Lee Lindley <ltl@rgsun7.cnet.att.com>
Moshe Linzer <moshel@taux01.nsc.com>

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