Autcsstat.116 net.followup utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!geoff Fri Apr 30 18:06:43 1982 Re: find command in the /usr/lib/crontab As far as I know, the `find / -name '#*' ...' in crontab is to remove old dead messages from /usr/msgs or whereever they live. Some users have claimed that the documentation promises that # files will be automatically removed by daemons and may be used as temporaries. The 4.1BSD find is much faster than the old v6 and PWB find's because it chdir's into the nearest directory to reduce directory searching. Our find's from the root don't take very long (I think about 20 mins) and we have 600 Mbytes of disk, largely used up. Therefore, you may have a loop in your file system; I don't know if any current file system checkers catch loops. We have a program here that does. [Berkeley claim to have modified fsck to find missing or wrong . and ..'s, so might just wait for 4.2 rather than asking for the program.] ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.