From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 20 14:48:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B42837B4E5 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:48:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eAKMmsr08887; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:48:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:48:53 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brian Reichert Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find, -delete, and relative paths Message-ID: <20001120144853.E18037@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001120161557.R11172@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001120161557.R11172@numachi.com>; from reichert@numachi.com on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 04:15:57PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Brian Reichert [001120 13:16] wrote: > I didn't find anything after an admittedly quick look intp PRs and the mail > list archives: > > Under FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, we are running a simple log file scrubber: > > 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp \! -ctime 1 -delete > > I pointedly am using an absolute path, yes I get this warning repeatedly: > > find: -delete: /usr/local/logs/lsp: relative path potentially not safe > > How can I suppress this warning? Is it a bug in find, or did I > misunderstand the manpage? Blind guess, is /usr/local/logs/lsp a symlink to someplace or is any part of the path a symlink that contains some form of /../ ? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message