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From: feb@cblpe.ATT.COM (Franco Barber)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: /etc/.cleanup removes /lost+found at boot time on UNIX PC (3.5)
Keywords: /lost+found, fsck, removing.
Message-ID: <899@cblpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 Feb 88 03:57:45 GMT
References: <246@icus.UUCP>
Reply-To: feb@cblpe.ATT.COM (55216-Franco Barber)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Columbus, Ohio
Lines: 27

In article <246@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>On the UNIX PC release 3.5 or earlier the /etc/.cleanup file has a 
>small bug.  It accidentally removes the /lost+found directory.  It was
>commented out on my UNIX PC release 3.51 (I guess someone found it!)
>
>The old file read...
>
># Clean the /lost+found directory if one exists
>
>find /lost+found -mtime +7 -type d -exec rm -rf {} \; >/dev/null 2>&1
>
...
>						-Lenny
>-- 


I checked my UNIX PC, with UNIX version 3.5 on it, and that line
has also been commented out.

I got my 3b1 in June '87.


Franco

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Franco Barber    AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
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