-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:13:30AM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > >If someone tries to grep a whole Centos 4 server as root from / for a > >single > >word, will you see errors like this? :-) > > > you may want to use "--exclude=PATTERN". In this case the dir /dev > > grep -R --exclude=/dev "some_term" You might want to excluse /proc and /sys too (at least). I have seen more than 1 server crash due to ... how should I put it ... enthusiastic admins greping and/or tar'ing /proc. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFaweNpdyWzQ5b5ckRAqs0AJwLMFXGp9MGb1afZ1cDSMKHDNCdwgCfY7QD Ni2dDWGZl3pFbVNn0w3s/XA= =/QhW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----