The projdel utility deletes a project from the system and makes the appropriate changes to the system file.

The following operands are supported:

project

The name of the project to be deleted.

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful completion.

2

The command syntax was invalid. A usage message for projdel is displayed.

3

An invalid argument was provided to an option.

4

The projid given with the -p option is already in use.

5

The project files contain an error. See project(4).

6

The project to be modified, group, or user does not exist.

9

The project is already in use.

10

Cannot update the /etc/project file.

/etc/project

System project file

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

projects(1), groupadd(1M), groupdel(1M), groupmod(1M), grpchk(1m), logins(1M), projadd(1M), projmod(1M), useradd(1M), userdel(1M), usermod(1M), project(4), attributes(5)

In case of an error, projdel prints an error message and exits with a non-zero status.

projdel deletes a project definition only on the local system. If a network name service such as NIS or LDAP is being used to supplement the local /etc/project file with additional entries, projdel cannot change information supplied by the network name service.