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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.]
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