From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 12 19:10:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA09867 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:10:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA09861 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:10:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA00412; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:09:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Steve Hovey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fts_read question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Steve Hovey wrote: > > I get the message below from some of my machines, does any one know what > it means? I know its from a cron job I run, but Im unsure what the > message means./ > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sun, 10 Aug 97 4:31:02 EDT > From: root (Cron Daemon) > To: root > Subject: Cron /usr/bin/find / -name '*.core' -exec rm {} \; > > find: fts_read: Permission denied This means that the program 'find' had trouble reading a directory and spit out the error. It looks like you enabled support for removing coredumps from the root directory and your 'find' command doesn't have sufficient permissions. It should be set as follows: -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24576 Feb 6 1997 /usr/bin/find* Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo