Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:09:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fts_read question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970812190825.252S-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970810092205.28613C-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net>
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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 <root@buffnet11> /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
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