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Date:      Fri, 9 Feb 2007 20:49:38 -0200
From:      "Victor Loureiro Lima" <victorloureirolima@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/bin/du + crontab weird bug
Message-ID:  <ac00e00a0702091449p1359c37v4e3473c6e51ddad5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <205542.91900.qm@web30309.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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2007/2/9, R. B. Riddick <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>:
> --- Victor Loureiro Lima <victorloureirolima@gmail.com> wrote:
> > root@zion# du -s /etc
> > 2544    /etc
> >
> > What gives that when "/usr/bin/du -s" is running from crontab is gives
> > the exact double of entries in the directory but when it is running
> > from console itself, it doesnt display the same amount of
> > entries!?!?!?!
> >
> I think, it is about block size:
> in the crontab environment block size is 512B and in ur shell it is 1024B.
>
> There is an environment variable: BLOCKSIZE
> and there is an option: -k
>
> Just try "du -ks /etc" in ur crontab...
>
> -Arne

Solved!!! Thanks!

victor loureiro lima



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