From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 20 13:16: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B89BE37B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:15:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15917 invoked by uid 3001); 20 Nov 2000 21:15:57 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by numachi.numachi.com with SMTP; 20 Nov 2000 21:15:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 22708 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Nov 2000 21:15:57 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:15:57 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: find, -delete, and relative paths Message-ID: <20001120161557.R11172@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message