find not finding file.

[John Webster]

--On Thursday, April 27, 2006 18:43:01 +0100 RW <list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com> 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.

# ls -ld /etc/namedb         
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  21 Apr 27 08:48 /etc/namedb@ -> /var/named/etc/namedb 

# find /etc/ -follow -name 'named.conf'
/etc/namedb/named.conf


> named.conf is not found, but as a sanity check a similar search for ppp.conf 
> succeeds  
> 
>    # find /etc/ -name 'ppp.conf'
>    /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
> 
> 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/
> 
> 
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