Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:54:29 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> To: "Richard Childers" <rchilders@hamquist.com> Cc: "Dmitriy Bokiy" <ratebor@cityline.ru>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie questions: DoS & xinetd Message-ID: <19990611015430.29859.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <37600E33.9A11E641@hamquist.com> of Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:12:51 MST References: <18819.990610@cityline.ru> <37600E33.9A11E641@hamquist.com>
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"Richard Childers" writes:
> For instance, if I wanted to search for all occurrences of the string
> "net.inet.ip.redirect", I would do:
>
> # find / -type f -exec grep -i "net.inet.ip.redirect" {} \; -print
One word of caution for indiscriminate use of "find /" is that
it can lead to long waits and lots of disk thrashing on machines
with lots of files. Here's one I just ran:
# /usr/bin/time find / -print | wc -l
3296.20 real 96.33 user 968.21 sys
711184
Obviously, to do something like run grep over however many of
those 700k entries and <6GB of data that are actually files
would add quite a bit to the 55 minutes the simple find took.
Of course, this is not to argue that people should not look for
answers on their machines.
--
Greg Black -- <gjb@acm.org> or <gjb@computer.org>
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