From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 8 17:08:19 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 397D216A420 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:08:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from lilzmailso02.liwest.at (lilzmailso02.liwest.at [212.33.55.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6351043D60 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:08:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from cm56-136-28.liwest.at ([86.56.136.28] helo=[192.168.1.102]) by lilzmailso02.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1FH293-0006Nu-62; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:08:17 +0100 From: Daniela To: Josh Paetzel Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:06:16 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200603081058.10027.josh@tcbug.org> <200603081759.45078.dgw@liwest.at> <200603081104.40434.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200603081104.40434.josh@tcbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603081806.16199.dgw@liwest.at> X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) X-Spam-Report: BAYES_00=-4.9 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 Reply-To: dgw@liwest.at List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:08:19 -0000 On Wednesday 08 March 2006 17:04, Josh Paetzel wrote: > 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. :( What is (or was) your file creation mask (umask) set to? -- Hope is the worst of all evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.