/etc/.cleanup removes /lost+found at boot time on UNIX PC (3.5)

Franco Barber feb at cblpe.ATT.COM
Mon Feb 8 13:57:45 AEST 1988


In article <246 at icus.UUCP> lenny at icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>On the UNIX PC release 3.5 or earlier the /etc/.cleanup file has a 
>small bug.  It accidentally removes the /lost+found directory.  It was
>commented out on my UNIX PC release 3.51 (I guess someone found it!)
>
>The old file read...
>
># Clean the /lost+found directory if one exists
>
>find /lost+found -mtime +7 -type d -exec rm -rf {} \; >/dev/null 2>&1
>
...
>						-Lenny
>-- 


I checked my UNIX PC, with UNIX version 3.5 on it, and that line
has also been commented out.

I got my 3b1 in June '87.


Franco

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