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Re: [linux-security] Things NOT to put in root's crontab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Cross)
Wed May 22 17:03:10 1996
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 14:59:28 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 May 1996 13:24:16 EDT."
<199605221724.NAA03201@hausdorff.math.psu.edu>
> 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. :-)
Whoops... brain fart. I *totally* misread that last message. Forgive me,
not enough coffee... :-)
- Dan C.
