Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews mkhistory problem
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.050856.3045@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 05:08:56 GMT
References: <1991Jun22.233741.11143@sherpa.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Jun22.233741.11143@sherpa.uucp> rac@sherpa.uucp (Roger Cornelius) writes:
>On this system, $NEWSARTS is a mounted filesystem and one of it's
>directories is lost+found.  lost+found has rwx------ perms and is
>owned by bin.  When the find command which follows the above code
>attempts to search lost+found, it quits ...
>Once I discovered the cause, my solution was to change the "test" in
>the above code to make sure a directory is readable ...

Changes along these lines are in the working copy of mkhistory here,
and will be in the next patch (soon).  Only readable directories go
in the search list, and lost+found never goes in even if it is readable.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
