find not finding file.

[Kevin Kinsey]

John Webster wrote:
> 
>>Can anyone explain this:
>>
>>   # find /etc/ -name 'named.conf'
>>   # ls -l /etc/namedb/named.conf
>>   -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3715 Nov 13 17:35 /etc/namedb/named.conf
>>
> 
> /etc/namedb is a link to another directory, don't use the trailing
> / in the ls -ld.  So, in this case, you need to add -follow to find.
> 
>>
>>there is nothing odd about the directories: 
>>
>>   # ls -dl  /etc/namedb/  /etc/ppp/
>>   drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  512 Nov 13 17:35 /etc/namedb/
>>   drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Feb  8 17:36 /etc/ppp/
>>

All well & good; we'll assume the OP missed the fact that this is a 
symlink.  What seems interesting to me, though (and it's probably just 
the fact that I'm a relative *Nix newb), why this?

[402] Thu 27.Apr.2006 15:03:23 
                                       [kadmin at archangel][~] 
 
       # ls -dl /etc/namedb/
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  512 Apr 26  2005 /etc/namedb//
 
                                        [403] Thu 27.Apr.2006 15:03:27 
 
        [kadmin at archangel][~] 
                                               # ls -dl /etc/namedb
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  21 Jan 17  2005 /etc/namedb@ -> 
/var/named/etc/namedb


Certainly doesn't *seem* to be mentioned in ls(1).

KDK

PS. Heh, apparently it was me   |
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