In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Victor Loureiro Lima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Hello -hackers and -fs,
>
> Sorry for the cross-post but I didnt know where this particular post
> belonged to...
> In a .br FreeBSD related mailing-list a user seems to have a found a
> bug when using /usr/bin/du and crontab together, I am posting it here
> to see what responses we get:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] du -s /etc
> 2544 /etc
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/crontab | grep du
> 30 19 * * 5 root /usr/bin/du -s /etc >>
> /tmp/lele
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] date
> Fri Feb 9 19:29:30 BRST 2007
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /tmp/lele
> 5088 /etc
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] du -s /etc
> 2544 /etc
>
> What gives that when "/usr/bin/du -s" is running from crontab is gives
> the exact double of entries in the directory but when it is running
> from console itself, it doesnt display the same amount of
> entries!?!?!?!
du uses the BLOCKSIZE environment variable to decide what size blocks
to display. Crontab commands don't run with your environment; they run
with a very restricted one. This is documented in the du manual page.
> Weird bug...
Someone probably set BLOCKSIZE in your environment. Try using "du -sk" to
force du to use 1k blocks.
<mike
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