crontab Daemon-from-Hell

[Karl Fox]

In article <1526 at sialis.mn.org> rjg at sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
 >>>	cd /usr/spool/uucppublic
 >>>	find . -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;
 >>
 >>This is dangerous if run as root.  If anything - disk error, anything - 
 >>happens to make /usr/spool/uucppublic unavailable, you will wipe your
 >>file structure.
 >
 >??
 >
 >/usr/spool/uucppublic is not a required nor integral part of the
 >system, filesystem, file structure or even UUCP.

What Tom was pointing out is that if /usr/spool/uucppublic isn't there,
then the 'cd' will fail, leaving the 'find' running in '/'.  Not a nice
idea at all -- this is a NASTY bug.
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Karl Fox, Morning Star Technologies               karl at MorningStar.COM