[vox-tech] find not found

Peter Salzman p at dirac.org
Sun Oct 24 18:28:23 PDT 2010


On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Rod Roark <rod at sunsetsystems.com> wrote:
> On 10/24/2010 01:35 PM, Brian Lavender wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:00:40AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
>>> A strange thing happened last night around 10:09 pm.  I had just rebooted
>>> my home server (running Ubuntu 10.04), and then started getting emails
>>> from cron jobs saying this:
>>>
>>> /bin/sh: find: not found
>>
>> Is /usr/bin in your path?
>
> Yes.  It was not a path problem, but a missing file problem.  That's
> the mystery.
>
> I have a feeling my Hauppauge PVR-350 TV capture card may have
> caused this.  It was recording a program and had died (i.e. would
> no longer record), which is what prompted the original reboot.
>
> Rod


Seems like that would be more of a symptom than a cause.  How would
recording a program delete files in of itself?

I haven't followed the entire thread -- was filesystem (either
physical or virtual) or memory corruption ruled out?

Pete


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