Is this a Race Condition?

[Daniela]

On Friday 23 January 2004 17:13, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	I have a cron job that looks for files in /tmp and other
> directories that are more than X days old so that they go away and
> don't keep piling up.  Every few days, I get a message like:
>
> ------- Forwarded Message
>
>
> Date:    Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:51:00 CST
>
> From:    root at sistem.domain(Cron Daemon)
> Subject: Cron <root at system> find /var/tmp -name NOTESTS -mtime +1 -exec rm
> -f {} \;
>
>
> find: /var/tmp/okstate.zone.32220: No such file or directory
>
> 	My guess is that find expands the tree but the temporary file
> is gone by the time the find command actually executes the rm command.

Yes, that's most likely the cause.


> 	The messages are purely random as to the file name and
> directory.
>
> 	Thanks.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
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