Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 20:54:48 +0300 (MSK) From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru> To: clefevre@cybercable.fr Cc: doconnor@gsoft.com.au, reichert@numachi.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find, -delete, and relative paths Message-ID: <200011221754.UAA14466@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <hf50a7tb.fsf@gits.dyndns.org> from "Cyrille Lefevre" at "Nov 22, 0 06:34:40 am"
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Cyrille Lefevre writes: > "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes: > > On 20-Nov-00 Brian Reichert wrote: > > > I didn't find anything after an admittedly quick look intp PRs and the mail > > > list archives: > > > > > > Under FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, we are running a simple log file scrubber: > > > > > > 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp \! -ctime 1 -delete > > > > > > I pointedly am using an absolute path, yes I get this warning repeatedly: > > > > > > find: -delete: /usr/local/logs/lsp: relative path potentially not safe > > > > > > How can I suppress this warning? Is it a bug in find, or did I > > > misunderstand the manpage? > > > > I don't know why, but I think find prints those messages when you attempt to delete > > a directory. > > > > If you do -> > > 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp -type f -a \! -ctime 1 -delete > > > > it should work.. > > 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp -depth \! -ctime 1 -delete > > could be better, deletes file entries before directory ones. > > PS : -a is not necessary, it's always implied except if -o of course. Look at ports/sysutils/deleted daemon that deletes old files, directories and other -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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