At 08 July, 2003 Rex Walters wrote:
> > the line
> >
> > ebegin "Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run"
> > ( find /var/lock -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f -- 1>&2 )
> >
> > can be changed to:
> >
> > ebegin "Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run"
> > ( find /var/lock -type f -exec rm -f {} \; )
>
> This definitely fixes the error but I'm curious why the first version
> doesn't work? Seems like a bug in gnu find or xargs to me -- the fix is
> really more of a workaround.
>
> The first version attempts to be more efficient (the latter forks a
> separate "rm" process for every file found).
>
> Can anybody explain what the problem is with the first version? When I
> try to run it manually (rather than as part of the runlevels boot
> process) it seems to work fine.The problem is probably that, when the command is run at boot, (find /var/lock -type f -print0) returns a very long list of files, which is too long for xargs to deal with properly. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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