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Re: overwrite any file with updatedb
From: kragen () pobox com (Kragen)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:56:25 -0500
On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Cain wrote:
On many linux systems(Redhat imparticularly) updatedb is run nightly around 1:00. When it sorts the files that find gets, it creats a few files in /tmp called sort0<pid>000{1,2,etc}. . . .
I should point out that it's actually /bin/sort that creates these files. The Solaris /bin/sort does the same, last I checked, which probably means most Unix implementations of sort do the same. Whether other implementations of sort are smarter than GNU sort with symlinks, etc., I don't know. Kragen
Current thread:
- overwrite any file with updatedb Cain (Mar 01)
- Re: overwrite any file with updatedb Kragen (Mar 02)
- Re: overwrite any file with updatedb Kragen (Mar 02)
- Re: overwrite any file with updatedb Dave G. (Mar 02)
- Re: overwrite any file with updatedb Jeff Murphy (Mar 02)
- Re: overwrite any file with updatedb Bryan Andregg (Mar 02)
- updatedb stuff Cain (Mar 02)