Removing alias

[Noel Gomez]

I connected my iBook to a network at a hotel and used safari to surf
the interet.

I have found that somehow two aliases were added to my hard drive.

1 on /
and 1 in /Network/Servers

both aliases are owned by system so I could not delete them

I was able to delete the one in / by activating the root account and
deleting it logged in as root

However, I can't find a way to remove the one in /Network/Servers

ls -l
shows

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Jul 17 14:29
1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com -> /

I have tried unalias and chown logged in as root, but i still can't
get rid of it. (can't change the owner)

Any thoughs would be apreciated.

[Dave Seaman]

On 17 Jul 2003 11:59:58 -0700, Noel Gomez wrote:

> I connected my iBook to a network at a hotel and used safari to surf
> the interet.

> I have found that somehow two aliases were added to my hard drive.

> 1 on /
> and 1 in /Network/Servers

> both aliases are owned by system so I could not delete them

> I was able to delete the one in / by activating the root account and
> deleting it logged in as root

> However, I can't find a way to remove the one in /Network/Servers

> ls -l
> shows

> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Jul 17 14:29
> 1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com -> /

> I have tried unalias and chown logged in as root, but i still can't
> get rid of it. (can't change the owner)

> Any thoughs would be apreciated.

Try:

sudo rm /Network/Servers/1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com

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[Noel Gomez]

Dave Seaman <dseaman@no.such.host> wrote in message news:<bf71ol$nnk$1@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>...

> On 17 Jul 2003 11:59:58 -0700, Noel Gomez wrote:

> > I connected my iBook to a network at a hotel and used safari to surf
> > the interet.

>

> > I have found that somehow two aliases were added to my hard drive.

>

> > 1 on /
> > and 1 in /Network/Servers

>

> > both aliases are owned by system so I could not delete them

>

> > I was able to delete the one in / by activating the root account and
> > deleting it logged in as root

>

> > However, I can't find a way to remove the one in /Network/Servers

>

> > ls -l
> > shows

>

> > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Jul 17 14:29
> > 1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com -> /

>

> > I have tried unalias and chown logged in as root, but i still can't
> > get rid of it. (can't change the owner)

>

> > Any thoughs would be apreciated.

>
> Try:
>
> sudo rm /Network/Servers/1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com

I did, that doesn't work. Here is what I get:

sudo rm /Network/Servers/1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com
Password:
rm: /Network/Servers/1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com: Read-only file system

[Andrew Templeman]

Noel Gomez <noel_gomez@my-deja.com> wrote:

>
> I did, that doesn't work. Here is what I get:
>
> sudo rm /Network/Servers/1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com
> Password:
> rm: /Network/Servers/1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com: Read-only file system

Open the Netinfo Manager program in Utilities and have a look in
'mounts'

[Noel Gomez]

[email]andy@templeman.org.uk[/email] (Andrew Templeman) wrote in message news:<1fya5ka.10nqgn0vmmtpoN%andy@templeman.org.uk >...

> Noel Gomez <noel_gomez@my-deja.com> wrote:
>

> >
> > I did, that doesn't work. Here is what I get:
> >
> > sudo rm /Network/Servers/1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com
> > Password:
> > rm: /Network/Servers/1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com: Read-only file system

>
>
> Open the Netinfo Manager program in Utilities and have a look in
> 'mounts'

No, no mounts in Netinfo.

[Jennifer Mullen]

In <ae3d216f.0307171059.1b910e57@posting.google.com >
Noel Gomez <noel_gomez@my-deja.com> wrote:

> However, I can't find a way to remove the one in /Network/Servers
>
> ls -l
> shows
>
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Jul 17 14:29
> 1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com -> /

That's always there on an OS X machine. It's not hurting anything. Leave it
alone.



J.

[Noel Gomez]

[email]noel_gomez@my-deja.com[/email] (Noel Gomez) wrote in message news:<ae3d216f.0307180437.3c58934b@posting.google. com>...

> [email]andy@templeman.org.uk[/email] (Andrew Templeman) wrote in message news:<1fya5ka.10nqgn0vmmtpoN%andy@templeman.org.uk >...

> > Noel Gomez <noel_gomez@my-deja.com> wrote:
> >

> > >
> > > I did, that doesn't work. Here is what I get:
> > >
> > > sudo rm /Network/Servers/1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com
> > > Password:
> > > rm: /Network/Servers/1440host70.starwoodbroadband.com: Read-only file system

> >
> >
> > Open the Netinfo Manager program in Utilities and have a look in
> > 'mounts'

>
>
> No, no mounts in Netinfo.

I found a solution and what I guess happened.

Somehow /Network/Servers got populated with the name the network
assiged my computer.

when I restarted my computer, without a connection to a network, the
name in /Network/Servers went away.

Now when I click on that directory it's not even populated.