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Date:      Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:47:06 +0300
From:      Igor Roboul <igorr@sysadm.stc>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help, I've broken X
Message-ID:  <20020213124706.GA78069@sysadm.stc>
In-Reply-To: <20020213001051.A3572@bullwinkle.local>
References:  <20020213001051.A3572@bullwinkle.local>

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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 12:10:51AM -1000, Carl Tucker wrote:
> Ok. I like to think I'm not totally clueless, but every once in a
> while, I do something that makes me reconsider.
> 
> I wanted to remove a user, so I did 'vipw' and deleted the line for
> that user. So far so good. Then, I changed to /usr/home, and, as
> root, issued: find . -delete -print -user [user]
You have made 2 errors.
1) If you wish use something like "-user user" then you must not edit
passwd before this command
2) "find" arguments are order-dependent, so right command be
find . -user [user] -print -delete

-- 
Igor Roboul, System administrator at Speech Technology Center
http://www.speechpro.com http://www.speechpro.ru

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