Tom Peters wrote: > Ok, from the REALLY BASIC QUESTION department, why does find fail with > "find . changed during execution of find" when I search from the root? > This is a Suse 9.2 installation on a PIII with 640mb of RAM. Really. It > boots from a small IDE drive where most of Linux is but there's also two > different raid arrays attached, one SATA on a 3Ware card, one SCSI. > > Example: > > # find / -name smb.conf > [finds some files and reports them > find: . changed during execution of find > > # > > Often I get no results from the find before it returns that error, > although this example does return 4 results. What should I be doing > instead?
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Jan/0466.html for a complete analysis of this phenomenon by Randall. Guess what. Found this link by googling "changed during execution of find". Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
