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From: karl@mstar.MorningStar.COM (Karl Fox)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: crontab Daemon-from-Hell
Message-ID: <1108@mstar.MorningStar.COM>
Date: 4 Jun 89 02:44:51 GMT
References: <19071@cup.portal.com> <14373@bfmny0.UUCP> <1526@sialis.mn.org>
Reply-To: karl@MorningStar.COM (Karl Fox)
Organization: Morning Star Technologies, Columbus, Ohio
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In article <1526@sialis.mn.org> rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
 >>>	cd /usr/spool/uucppublic
 >>>	find . -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;
 >>
 >>This is dangerous if run as root.  If anything - disk error, anything - 
 >>happens to make /usr/spool/uucppublic unavailable, you will wipe your
 >>file structure.
 >
 >??
 >
 >/usr/spool/uucppublic is not a required nor integral part of the
 >system, filesystem, file structure or even UUCP.

What Tom was pointing out is that if /usr/spool/uucppublic isn't there,
then the 'cd' will fail, leaving the 'find' running in '/'.  Not a nice
idea at all -- this is a NASTY bug.
-- 
Karl Fox, Morning Star Technologies               karl@MorningStar.COM