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Re: find utility gives segmentation fault



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On Friday 28 June 2002 00:06, Larry Smith wrote:
> I've been having trouble with the find utility in
> Potato.
>
> Often, if I run find as root (so I can have permission
> to look in all directories), it will run awhile, then
> die with a segmentation fault.
>
> When this happens, I'm unable to do a normal shutdown,
> the system hangs during shutdown.
>
> I use the command:
>
> find -name filename

You need to specify a directory to start the search in.

Try:

	find / -name filename


HTH,
Ian
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