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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-lond.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!visint.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Steve Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Daily security check output Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 15:47:28 +0000 Organization: Vision Interactive Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32CBD890.41C67EA6@visint.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: visint.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: visint.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33443 My daily security output is being silly. The find command is getting completely messed up by pathnames which have spaces or wildcards in, the thing is I wouldn't normally worry except that root is getting about 5k of mail every day, saying that thousands of different files are an 'illegal path'. For Example: find: /usr/home/steve/autosaves/#\!usr\!home\!steve\!gtb\!source\!nlist.c#: illegal path Anyway, does anyone know how to sort this out. I beleive that the find in /etc/security isn't working as expected, i.e. it's one of the listed bugs for find. Anyway, I have to have a workaround, preferably better than removing the find though =-) Thanks. Steve.