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Re: [linux-security] Things NOT to put in root's crontab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. McCann)
Wed May 22 17:22:38 1996
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 14:50:16 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: "Christopher D. McCann" <cmccann@millenniumcc.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
Dan Cross wrote:
>
> 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.
GNU find needs the '-follow' option passed to it in order to follow sym
links.
-chris
