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["Ryan McCain" <Ryan.McCain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This fixed my problem. Thanks to all who responded.

rn

 
 
>>>Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> 02/02 6:14 pm >>> 
Ryan, 
 
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:57, Ryan McCain wrote: 
>I am running SUSE 9.2 Pro.  Has anyone seen this error when trying to 
>run "find" starting at "/" .. If I search starting at /home, /usr, 
>etc. all works fine.  Any ideas? 
> 
>busket:~ # find / -name passwd 
>find: . changed during execution of find 
>busket:~ # 
 
You can see my analysis of why "find" does this here: 
<http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Jan/0466.html>. If you 
want to see a somewhat antagonistic back-and-forth regarding whether or 
not this is evidence of a bug, see this thread: 
<http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Jan/0346.html>. 
 
The work-around is to exclude "/media" and any other directories where 
you have a mount point for an auto-mounted file system such as that 
used for removable media (CD / DVD, flash RAM, diskette, etc.). If your 
system is a stock one, then probably /media is the only problematic 
directory. "/proc" might be problematic, as well. 
 
 
You should also familiarize your self with the "locate" command ("man 
locate", of course). It is much less flexible than find, but when 
applicable, far faster and less stressful to your hard drive. 
 
 
>--- 
>Thanks, Ryan 
 
 
Good luck. 
 
 
Randall Schulz 
 
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