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How to delete /home/<username>/svn directory?

Hi,

I was having issues with my Capsitrano + Subversion deployment. Hence I decided to start things from scratch, but I am somehow unable to delete the svn directory to start from scratch.

[~/svn]$ rm -rf nurall
rm: cannot remove `nurall/conf/passwd': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/conf/authz': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/conf/svnserve.conf': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/format': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/locks/db-logs.lock': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/locks/db.lock': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/hooks/post-commit.tmpl': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/hooks/post-unlock.tmpl': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/hooks/start-commit.tmpl': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/hooks/pre-commit.tmpl': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/hooks/pre-revprop-change.tmpl': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/hooks/post-revprop-change.tmpl': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/hooks/pre-lock.tmpl': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/hooks/post-lock.tmpl': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/hooks/pre-unlock.tmpl': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/README.txt': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove directory `nurall/cgi-bin': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revs/5': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revs/1': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revs/3': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revs/7': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revs/6': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revs/2': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revs/8': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revs/0': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revs/4': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/format': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/fs-type': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/write-lock': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove directory `nurall/db/transactions': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/current': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/uuid': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revprops/5': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revprops/1': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revprops/3': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revprops/7': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revprops/6': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revprops/2': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revprops/8': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revprops/0': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/db/revprops/4': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/dav/activities.dir': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `nurall/dav/activities.pag': Permission denied

How do I delete this directory? Or, what is a cleaner way to uninstall subversion?

Thanks,
Karthik

2007-09-19 07:06 AM

Hi - please do not post your username and/or hostname (I have edited these out now)

Were you accessing this repository over http?  You need to ask support to change the permissions for you.  

Cheers,
~William

2007-09-19 07:24 AM


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