Scott wrote: > Hello list > > I am new to Mandrake and have come on a problem that I > can't solve (sure it won't be the first). I have a > fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 on a Dell CPI laptop > with 256 meg ram. Everything is running great except > when I execute a find command. I use this syntax: > find / -name foo* > > When run as root the system just hangs and I am unable > to kill the process. When run as a normal user it does > scroll through a few directories then hangsTheain. THe > worse is that I am not able to kill the process after > it hangs. Can someone please help?
Scott; How do you try to kill it? It should die if you "kill -9" on the pid. I have seen find behave like you describe, when it comes across a pipe. Most implementations have an option to skip pipes. I'm at work so I can't look it up for you. HTH Gary > > > Regards and Happy Holidays > > Scott > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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