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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:51:33 -0500
From:      Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: find, -delete, and relative paths
Message-ID:  <20001120175133.T11172@numachi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001120144853.E18037@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:48:53PM -0800
References:  <20001120161557.R11172@numachi.com> <20001120144853.E18037@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:48:53PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> [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  /../ ?

Nope, no symlinks at all.  Nice try, though. :)

> -- 
> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."

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