On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Mumia W.. <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nos...@earthlink.net> wrote: > On 08/13/2008 12:16 AM, Zach Uram wrote: >> >> I just installed Debian 4.0 and whenever I use find on / I see: >> >> find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for ./proc/sys/net: this may >> be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's >> -noleaf option. Earli er results may have failed to include >> directories that should have been searched . >> >> What is going on and how can I fix this?
find is telling you about a kernel bug. You could report it, or upgrade, or ignore the problem. > Never use the find command to search /proc; that is a special virtual > filesystem used to configure your system. If programs touch the wrong things > in /proc, it could create serious problems for your computer. Hmm. Have you ever seen such a problem first-hand, or are you just propagating a rumour you heard somewhere? I ask since find doesn't actually touch the filesystem, it just traverses it. Of course if you specify an action like -delete, then yes, find will touch the filesystem. > The best way to use "find" is to create a database of all files on your > system, and "updatedb" does that. The wisely-written script in > /etc/cron.daily/find gets settings from /etc/updatedb.conf, and those > settings disable looking into "proc" filesystems. Only because the result of indexing /proc is rarely interesting, and always out of date. James. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
