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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 01:25:45 +0000
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Kerberus <kerberus@inetu.net>
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Subject: Re: daily security check output
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Kerberus wrote:

> so if i had just placed the cgi on the system as a user then run
> it...... say 3-4 days before update had run, then the locate command
> would have failed....!

Yes, but it won't exactly waste much time. If you're looking for a file,
locate is much quicker, and if the file doesn't exist, then resort to
find. And you can often find stuff without doing a full find from the
root, /usr/local would be a good place to look for custom stuff, (esp.
ports), etc.

> and then only whereis or find would have accomplished the task !  correct.

whereis probably wouldn't work, since CGI scripts aren't likely to be in a
place where whereis looks.

Oh, and your mail message format is terrible. First put the text you're
replying to before what you write. Second, don't quote the whole
message.  Third, wrap lines at <80 characters.

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Ben Smithurst
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