From: Jim Langston (jim.langston@walkerfirst.com)
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 22:45:49 EDT
Folks,
Okay, question for the guru's....... My /tmp directory was getting full, at
the 97%. Looked there and there were ~2500 files that were dating back
almost 2 years. (my apps guys were writing out to the wrong area.) So I
logged on one night to run this command:
find / \(-name "*.lis"\) -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;
Based on what I saw in the find man pages and what I did searching the
itrc.com web site, this command should look for any files ending in .lis
that are over 7 days old and remove them. HOWEVER, I inadvertantly ran it
at the root level. I immediately did a control C to stop the command. The
command stopped fine, but something happened to the system. I could not
telnet into the box at all, nor could I ftp, telnet, rlogin etc. out of the
system. I could ftp, rlogin, rcp etc to the system from both NT and other
unix systems. I thought it must have something to do with inetd. So I
started it several times to know avail. Contacted HP and they didn't really
know. They were able to duplicate my problem, and what we found out was
/stand/dlkm had been updated somehow. The only solution was to rebuild from
an ignite tape.
Anyone have any idea what this find command did?
Cheers,
Jim Langston
Systems Administrator
work: 336-731-5465
cell: 864-237-0464
jimla@walkerassoc.com
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