Manoj Srivastava writes ("Bug#1766: Bug in script checksecurity in package
cron"):
> Explanation: The mount | grep -v command is the problem for
> anyone who has more than one partitions mounted; the script actually
> tries to run find with multiple starting points (which is an error),
> like find dir1 dir2 dir3 -xdev ... The solution is to look at all
> the directories discovered by the mount snippet and examine each in a
> for loop. (This has been one of my more incoherent explanations; feel
> free to mail me for clarifications).
>From find(1):
SYNOPSIS
find [path...] [expression]
You are allowed to specify several paths. What makes you think you
aren't ?
> Also, I think one should exclude all mounted systems of type
> msdos (If nothing else, it save time).
That's probably a good idea. I'll implement it.
Ian.
