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Re: Bug in "du", needing current directory
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: Bug in "du", needing current directory |
Date: |
Thu, 22 May 2003 19:08:17 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
John F Meinel Jr wrote:
> I found an odd bug in using du
Thanks for the report!
> du: cannot open current directory: Permission denied
>
> My workaround was to give read permissions to /root, but that really
> isn't a preferred method.
As a different workaround which avoids the need to give read
permissions to /root, in your cron task could you cd / before running
your command?
(cd / && du /etc)
Bob