Problem with recursive searches.

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

Michael ODonnell wrote:

>I suspect find's symlink dereferencing behavior, so here's a
>shot in the dark: try toggling your dereference option, ie.
>if you're telling find to dereference symlinks, try the same
>search but don't dereference.  If you aren't, then do so...
>
Kudos.  "find -follow" works like a charm.  Except:

I'm just kind of puzzled; the directory has no symlinks (or links of any 
other type) in it.  Nor does /.  Any idea why de-referencing symlinks -- 
that, as far as I can tell, it hasn't looked at -- would cause this?  Is 
this a filesystem issue, perhaps?  (I'm using XFS, but I've used it 
before without issue.)

As an intermediate measure, I'm going to use the output of "ls -Ral", 
and parse it a little with Perl; it's got juicier info than "locate" 
spits back, anyway...

Thanks,

-Ken

P.S. Kevin: no supermount; simple NFS-via-automount and local mounts.