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[Blair P. Houghton]

Dratted mail; bounced like Morganna...

In article <804 at umt.UUCP> marsh at umt.UUCP (Paul Marsh) writes:
>In article <6490 at shlump.nac.dec.com>, michaud at decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) writes:
>> 	The problem could be as simple as /tmp and/or /usr/tmp having the wrong
>> 	permissions set on them.
>
>agghhh!  Bit again.  My cute crontab cleanup command, does more than clean up
>old files.   (find /usr/tmp -mtime +1 -a -exec rm -r -f {} \;)   It sometimes
>cleans up the directory too.  This shouldn't be too difficult to fix.  Many
>thanks Jeff (and Fred), things work much better now.

Try adding the flag '-type f', or even '-a \( -type f -o -type l \)'
to the find(1) you show above.  RTFM for what it means.

				--Blair
				  "All things considered, I'd
				   rather see Morganna bounce."