How find files that are more then certain days ? 2

[buccaneers]

Hello Guru's,

I have a question if i may ask. I am trying to find files older then certain number of days from current date. I thought you could do this with find cmd, but unfortunatey this is not working for me or i am not using the cmd correctly.

I was using following cmd to list files in a dir older then 60 days.

find /home/logs -mtime +60 -name "*.log"

and i am getting this error.

find: 0652-019 The status on /home/logs is not valid.


TIA,

--LN

 

[PHV]

Your find command should do what you want provided you have the right permissions and that the filesystem doesn't need some repair.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[buccaneers]

Thx PHV.

Is there any other way to get this list ?

TIA,

LN

 

[pcunix]

I'm not sure how to read your question.

Of course there are other ways to do it. You could, for example, do an "ls -lR" and pipe that to a shell script that examined the date fields. That would be medium hard, and probably slow. You could write a Perl script that walked the directory tree, did a stat, and compared times. Not very hard to do, and probably runs only a little slower than find.

But the problem you are having has something to do /home/logs, not find itself, so even if you did implement something else, it would probably have the same problem.

It might be of value to try "stat /home/logs" and see what that says. Example:

# stat `pwd`
  File: `/root/custdat/quantum'
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   Directory
Device: 1643h/5699d     Inode: 294450      Links: 2    
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2005-05-24 15:39:22.000000000 -0400
Modify: 2005-05-24 15:39:11.000000000 -0400
Change: 2005-05-24 15:39:11.000000000 -0400

Tony Lawrence
Linux/Unix/Mac OS X Resources

http://aplawrence.com

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi. Try searching for 0652-019 at:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/aix/aixprob/msgdnref/7digitrecov.htm#A4Zdri2d9s17

 

[columb]

I got a very similar error using AIX 5.1 when the file system was mounted over a mount point with insufficient permissions. So wheh you did ls -ld /home/logs you got drwxrwxrwx permissions but when /home/logs was unmounted the permissions were drwxr-x---.

The only solution was to unmount the filesystem, fix the permissions (chmod 777 /home/logs) and remount it.

As you can imagine this one kept me stumped for a while.

Columb Healy