Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:02:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> To: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find not finding file. Message-ID: <20060427105839.P81068@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> In-Reply-To: <200604271843.02533.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <200604271843.02533.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, RW wrote: > Can anyone explain this: > > # find /etc/ -name 'named.conf' > # ls -l /etc/namedb/named.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3715 Nov 13 17:35 /etc/namedb/named.conf > > named.conf is not found, but as a sanity check a similar search for ppp.conf > succeeds > > # find /etc/ -name 'ppp.conf' > /etc/ppp/ppp.conf > > there is nothing odd about the directories: > > # ls -dl /etc/namedb/ /etc/ppp/ > drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Nov 13 17:35 /etc/namedb/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 8 17:36 /etc/ppp/ Try this: $ ls -l /etc |grep namedb lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Dec 31 18:56 namedb -> /var/named/etc/namedb namedb is actually a link, and find isn't following it.
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