find error in /proc

BlueSpirit · 10-13-2006, 09:23 AM

Well, hello

Each time I do a find in /proc, I get this error:

Quote:

find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.

Can anyone tell me what to do?

If I downgrade findutils, can it work?

B/c I need to search something in /proc.

Im on Slackware 11.0

Before, there was NO problems on Slackware 10.2

Thanx for help, very appreciated

Blue

petersum · 10-13-2006, 05:07 PM

You should not even attempt to find anything in /proc because it is constantly changing! It is a most dangerous thing to do, and sooner or later you will corrupt your entire system.

What on earth are you trying to find?

syg00 · 10-13-2006, 05:29 PM

Seems to me the message told you what to do - use noleaf.

BlueSpirit · 10-13-2006, 06:10 PM

Ok well... Ill try searching manually...
Its b/c I did a wrong mv cmd to /proc...

But you know hos wher I can do:

alias find='find --noleaf' ?

Thanx

Can you tell me a script to do? thanx...

And you know why it was NOT doing it on Slackware 10.2?

Thanx

BlueSpirit · 10-13-2006, 07:52 PM

Can anyone tell me how can I alias the find command to find -noleaf?

I would like to put a script doing that in /etc/profile.d

If I can't do it in /etc/profile.d, where can I? or HOW?

Thanx A LOT!

nemrod · 10-13-2006, 10:02 PM

echo alias find=\"find --noleaf\" >> .bashrc (or .zshrc for zsh etc) is one way, if that was what you wanted to know

BlueSpirit · 10-14-2006, 07:44 AM

Hmmm thanx for this solution, but do theres any way to make it in /etc/bashrc ?

Thanx

BlueSpirit · 10-14-2006, 10:16 AM

OK now its OK...

I did a an /etc/bashrc script, and then I symlinked it to my $HOME directory with the name .bashrc

So I have an $HOME/.bashrc ---> /etc/bashrc

Thanx for help... It WORKED!