Finding a file with wrong permissions
Daniela
dgw at liwest.at
Wed Mar 8 17:08:19 UTC 2006
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 17:04, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 March 2006 11:59, Daniela wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 March 2006 16:58, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> > > I managed to install a pkg that I created and somehow the file
> > > +COMMENT wasn't created in /var/db/pkg/portname. I touched
> > > +COMMENT in the correct directory because pkg_info was
> > > complaining about a missing +COMMENT. Some time has gone by and
> > > I have forgotten which port it is. Now pkg_info complains:
> > >
> > > pkg_info: show_file: can't open '+COMMENT' for reading
> > >
> > > I'm looking for a way to locate this file.
> > >
> > > #find /var/db/pkg -perm 644 -name +COMMENT | wc -l
> > > 378
> > >
> > > #pkg_info | wc -l
> > > pkg_info: show_file: can't open '+COMMENT' for reading
> > > 379
> > >
> > > I've looked through the manpage for find and can't find a 'not'
> > > modifier. Is there an easy way to find a file that doesn't have
> > > a specific permission. ie something like:
> > >
> > > #find /var/db/pkg -perm !644 -name +COMMENT
> >
> > Or you could look for a file with zero size.
>
> Forgot to mention that I tried that. I may have put something in the
> file....damn my memory. :(
What is (or was) your file creation mask (umask) set to?
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