I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that works like deltree in dos. Keith nfn11988@naples.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org