Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:15:20 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> Cc: "Kellers, Timothy" <kellers@ADM.NJIT.EDU>, "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'kellers@njit.edu'" <kellers@njit.edu> Subject: Re: desktop.eml and sample.eml Message-ID: <20020316221004.J49217-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20020316143909.GV68827@roman.mobil.cz>
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Using find, is this command safe? find / -name "sample.eml" -delete I've read (and re-read) the man page for find and I'm still a bit skittish about the -delete function. And while I have used find often before, I've never used the -delete argument. When I tried it earlier this evening on my home computer, I wiped out my home directory. (I figured out my boneheaded syntax after that one). I can't afford to wipe out the school's server, though, so any suggestions (or different approaches) to deleting these miserable virus droppings. Thanks, Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > From: "Kellers, Timothy" <kellers@ADM.NJIT.EDU> > > To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> > > Cc: "'kellers@njit.edu'" <kellers@njit.edu> > > Subject: desktop.eml and sample.eml > > Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:47:51 -0500 > > > > -- Please forgive me if this shows up twice, but my ISP's e-mail server is > > having connectivity problems -- > > > > > > One of my servers at work (FreeBSD 4.5-Stable) is riddled with the > > desktop.eml and sample.eml files. There are thousands of those files in > > snip > > > I have built uvscan from ports and, though it is a "demo" program, we > > have a site license to run Network Associates NetShield and Virus Scan > > on all the University's workstations and servers --the license even > > covers FreeBSD, though Network Associates doesn't have a non-demo > > product for FreeBSD. Does anyone know if the .dat files as downloaded > > to a Win2k client will work with the uvscan in ports? > > no idea about this question. but why don't you ask the NA guys? > > > Secondly, if I save the output of: > > > > # locate desktop.eml > > > > into a file, is there a reasonably non-hazardous way of deleting all the > > filenames contained within the file? > > define non-hazardous. I would definitely prefer using find(1) > directly: locate(1) database is built once a week. > > -- > FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE > 3:31PM up 16 days, 16:38, 17 users, load averages: 0.12, 0.11, 0.08 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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