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Date:      Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:39:56 +0100
From:      Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
To:        sean@pasebo.nnet.ne.jp
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What happened to my 'find' command??
Message-ID:  <35E142FC.56D506E@tdx.co.uk>
References:  <35E13D49.3B9F3FCA@mail.nnet.ne.jp>

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Sean Bennett wrote:

> last week my 'find' command suddenly went on the fritz;
> 
>    find / -name <file> -print
> 
> used to work fine, searching my whole disk for the file in
> question.  Now however, it immediately prints out a list of 50-60
> lines like the following, yet can't find which I know does exist.
> 
> sean# find / -name httpd -print
>     *returns*
> find: /usr/include/isofs: No such file or directory
> find: /usr/include/machine: No such file or directory
> find: /usr/include/msdosfs: No such file or directory
> find: /usr/include/net: No such file or directory
> find: /usr/include/netatalk: No such file or directory
> [snip]

Just a quick thought - Are you sure your running Find as root, or someone who
actually has full permission to go search those directories?

Regards,

Karl

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