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Re: [linux-security] Things NOT to put in root's crontab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Cross)
Wed May 22 14:38:03 1996
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 13:24:16 -0400
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 May 1996 18:59:19 CDT."
<199605211710.NAA25637@myrus.com>
I was under the impression that find(1) didn't follow symbolic links?
Thus, one wouldn't ``find'' /etc/passwd if there was a link to /etc
from somewhere in /tmp.
Please don't tell me that Linux (or, more precisely, GNU) broke this. :-)
- Dan C.
