jfw@cello.mc.duke.edu (John Whitehead) (10/03/90)
Can anyone help me figure out why I get this error? I tried posting to the sun newsgroups but got no responses. I have a problem on my SparcStation 1 running SunOS 4.1 with the command "find": it gives me a "No such file" error for many files that do indeed exist. This did not occur when we were under 4.0.3. The errors look something like this: find: cannot stat /tmp: No such file or directory find: cannot stat /var: No such file or directory find: cannot stat /dev: No such file or directory find: cannot stat /mnt: No such file or directory find: cannot stat /sbin: No such file or directory find: cannot stat /bin: No such file or directory and so on for dozens of file names of real files. They reside in all of our three physical drives, symbolically linked eventually to the root drive. The commands we use that will cause the errors is find . -name <searchstring> -print find /var/preserve/ -mtime +7 -a -exec rm -f {} \; and find / -name core -atime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; The first one is something I tried typing as root from the root directory, the second two are lines from a cron job. Does anyonfe know what is going on here, and how I can correct whatever we must have done (not done) when upgrading to 4.1? Thanks. John Whitehead Internet: jfw@neuro.duke.edu Department of Neurobiology jfw@well.sf.ca.us Duke University Medical Center Bitnet: white002@dukemc Durham, North Carolina