Can't move files to .trash

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Thu Jun 7 18:53:29 PDT 2012


On 8/06/2012 11:25 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 8/06/2012 10:58 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>> sftp> rename index.html .trash/index.html
>> Couldn't rename file "/oj/home/dholmes/index.html" to
>> "/oj/home/dholmes/.trash/index.html": Permission denied
>> sftp>
>>
>> I've tried this every which way but can't move anything to trash.
>
> By coincidence (?) I just saw an update to an internal wiki page that
> says to do:
>
> chmod 77 .trash

chmod 700 .trash

David
-----

> and that fixed it.
>
>> I really wish we had a better interface for doing the file management
>> here. :(
>
> Still very tedious deleting things this way - particular when a messed
> up rsync/scp dumps a ton of files in your top-level directory. :(
>
> David
>
>> Thanks,
>> David


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