Re: Find isn't working

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From: John W. Wooten
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:23

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In article <By5FD0.Isu@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> asd@sage.cc.purdue.edu  
(Doug McClure) writes:
> I've been trying to use find on my recently  3.0 upgraded system and
> have been getting nothing.  I have this line in my crontab:
> 
> 45 2 * * 7  root    /usr/lib/find/updatedb>/usr/adm/updatedb.log 2>&1
> 
> I even ran the updatedb manually.  But when I try and find something
> it acts like the database isn't there.  What the hell is the problem?
> This worked fine on my 2.1 system.  But then a LOT of things used to
> work just FINE on my 2.1 and no longer on 3.0.
> 
> -dsm
> 

Release 3.0 doesn't use the same find as 2.1 (I think it was gfind).  I  
copied my old one back to replace find on the 3.0 and now that works  
okay.

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J. W. Wooten

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