I use the "locate" command to find files and it seems to work OK.
Jack Bowling
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> Bruce Hamilton wrote -
> Hello,
>
> I ran into a problem yesterday with one of my production REDHAT Linux
> servers. This particular server is running Oracle DB and is mainly a
> Database server. I need to run the standard LINUX/UNIX 'FIND" command to
> locate a particular file and when I ran the command, the entire system
just
> locked up ! Dead as a doornail. I was wondering if anyone out there in
the
> LINUX world has run across this problem, and if so, what did you do to
> correct it. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
then Brendan Walker answered -
> Hmm, never seen that myself..but.. Is is possible you've got a directory
> link that causes directery traversal to recurse forever?
There was a good thread on this a month or so ago on here. If I recall
correctly, you can run into trouble if you do not exclude certain "live"
directories such as /proc from your find search. Check the archives.
jb
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