Aucf-cs.540 net.general utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!ucf-cs!chen Tue Apr 27 10:55:53 1982 find command in the /usr/lib/crontab Is there anyone knows what the "find / -name '#*' -atime +3 -exec rm -f {}\;" doing? We have this statement in our /usr/lib/crontab since we had 4.1 It starts running from 4:00 AM every morning. We didn't have this problem before But Recently we find that this statement never finish for a long time (at least thousand hrs.) and drop the system performance down considerably. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.