From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 8 17:04:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B302516A420 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:04:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [63.240.77.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7021843D76 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:04:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from gimpy (c-24-118-173-219.hsd1.mn.comcast.net[24.118.173.219]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2006030817045001300o0q5be>; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:04:50 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: dgw@liwest.at Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:04:40 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200603081058.10027.josh@tcbug.org> <200603081759.45078.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <200603081759.45078.dgw@liwest.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603081104.40434.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding a file with wrong permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:04:52 -0000 On Wednesday 08 March 2006 11:59, Daniela wrote: > On Wednesday 08 March 2006 16:58, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > I managed to install a pkg that I created and somehow the file > > +COMMENT wasn't created in /var/db/pkg/portname. I touched > > +COMMENT in the correct directory because pkg_info was > > complaining about a missing +COMMENT. Some time has gone by and > > I have forgotten which port it is. Now pkg_info complains: > > > > pkg_info: show_file: can't open '+COMMENT' for reading > > > > I'm looking for a way to locate this file. > > > > #find /var/db/pkg -perm 644 -name +COMMENT | wc -l > > 378 > > > > #pkg_info | wc -l > > pkg_info: show_file: can't open '+COMMENT' for reading > > 379 > > > > I've looked through the manpage for find and can't find a 'not' > > modifier. Is there an easy way to find a file that doesn't have > > a specific permission. ie something like: > > > > #find /var/db/pkg -perm !644 -name +COMMENT > > Or you could look for a file with zero size. Forgot to mention that I tried that. I may have put something in the file....damn my memory. :( -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel