findutils 4.1-4 MacOSX

[Thomas J. Thatcher]

Hello,

It has been suggested that I inform whoever this may concern that the 
findutils 4.1-4 obtained through fink for Mac OSX 10.1.4 together 
with anacron 2.3 which sends mail to root when a cron.daily job has 
run will read as follows:

/sw/etc/cron.daily/findutils:
find: /dev/tty: Device not configured
find: /dev/tty: Device not configured

The reason this happens is because the code at 
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb prevents this error by specifying not to 
search fdesc filesystem and the fink /sw/bin/updatedb does not 
exclude the /dev dir in the search.

So, the answer is to add this to the /sw/bin/updatedb in the appropriate place:

find ${SRCHPATHS} \( ! -fstype local -o -fstype fdesc -o -fstype kernfs \)

If you already knew about this and are planning to make this change 
to the next release or a future release then please disregard this 
message.

Thank you for maintaining and caring for the findutils.  It is very 
much appreciated.

Regards,

Thomas J. Thatcher

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