file ownership

[Epicamble]

Hi

I recently completed my first php site which is a blog about my travels. It worked fine for the first month but come june I had some date problems which I resolved. I then went to delete some files and this is where the problem begins. Here is the file listing from my blog directory:

total 28
drwxrwxrwx 2 epicambl epicambl 4096 May 1 15:37 04 Apr 2006
drwxrwxrwx 2 epicambl epicambl 4096 May 31 04:29 05 May 2006
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 3 00:26 06 Jun 2006
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 3 00:27 May 2006
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 3 00:27 06 Jun 2006
drwxrwxrwx 7 epicambl epicambl 4096 Jun 3 00:47 .
drwxr-x--- 9 epicambl nobody 4096 Jun 3 01:04 ..

As I am in china in an internet cafe I have no ftp access, so I've been relying on my host's online file manager. It seems that rather than deleting the files it has unlinked them from me.

I've been trying to use rmdir under shell_exec to remove these directories but to no avail. Could someone please talk me through a method to delete these three directories using shell commands as the file manager is clearly useless.

Thanks

PS the blog is at www.epicamble.com if anybody is interested in my journey

[bradgrafelman]

Delete all files in the directory? Try...

rm /path/to/dir/*

[Epicamble]

Thanks for replying but the directories are already empty:

total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 3 00:27 .
drwxrwxrwx 7 epicambl epicambl 4096 Jun 3 00:47 ..

[bradgrafelman]

Try this then:

rm -r /path/to/directory

[Epicamble]

The following code:

<?php

function listContents(){
$output = shell_exec('ls -lart');
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";

};

// current directory
echo getcwd() . "\n";

chdir('blogs');

// current directory
echo getcwd() . "\n";

listContents();

$output= rmdir('May 2006');
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";

listContents();
?>

results in this output:

/home/epicambl/public_html /home/epicambl/public_html/blogs
total 28
drwxrwxrwx 2 epicambl epicambl 4096 May 1 15:37 04 Apr 2006
drwxrwxrwx 2 epicambl epicambl 4096 May 31 04:29 05 May 2006
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 3 00:26 06 Jun 2006
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 3 00:27 May 2006
drwxr-x--- 9 epicambl nobody 4096 Jun 3 01:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 3 01:46 06 Jun 2006
drwxrwxrwx 7 epicambl epicambl 4096 Jun 3 01:46 .

Warning: rmdir(May 2006) [function.rmdir]: No such file or directory in /home/epicambl/public_html/shell.php on line 25

Note that the directory is listed by the ls function but the rmdir function returns a directory not found function.