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Re: [cobalt-users] Majordomo woes
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Majordomo woes
- From: flash22@xxxxxxx
- Date: Fri Feb 9 15:55:26 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > admin) Cobalt logic.
Wanna see a nice example of 'cobalt logic' ?
This is from the cron updatedb script....
cd /
TMPFILE=`/bin/mktemp /tmp/locatedb.XXXXXX` || {
echo "could not create tempfile" >&2 ; exit 1
}
...
rm -rf $TMPFILE
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ok, so what happens if for *any* reason mktemp screws up? remember, this
is running as root...in / ...
gsh