Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:08:56 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: find, -delete, and relative paths Message-ID: <XFMail.001121120856.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20001120161557.R11172@numachi.com>
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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.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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