deleting a directory in solaris,Ksh

Question

rm -r /cbbconfg/BRCH/tmp
rm: cannot determine if this is an ancestor of the current working directory

Answer 1

rm is confused as to whether you are removing a directory that is part of the present working directory. check to see if there is a link or something that is causing this.

Answer 2

From what I remember this is an old bug in Solaris 10.

Ah-ha.

Have a look at this OpenSolaris bug report.

What about trying to do the delete recursively using find? Maybe something like:

find /cbbconfg -depth -exec rm -rf {} \;

Answer 3

I have solved it in the following way!! I have moved to that directory and ran the command :D