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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Remove symlink and target Post 302947079 by rbatte1 on Monday 15th of June 2015 08:57:18 AM
Old 06-15-2015
I would worry that someone could create a link in error to something critical, e.g. You have a directory called /development and someone manages to chop off the end of their command
Code:
ln -s dev /dev

As someone who has moved /dev by accident, I can confirm that the results are rather difficult to deal with. We managed to follow the trace of our job and put it back, but you are looking to remove files.

I would be very wary of letting this run as a script.

Collect the details for sure, but let a human check them before taking action.


Just my thoughts,
Robin
 

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dev_mkdb

DEV_MKDB(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					       DEV_MKDB(8)

NAME

     dev_mkdb -- create /dev database

SYNOPSIS

     dev_mkdb

DESCRIPTION

     The dev_mkdb command creates a db(3) hash access method database in ``/var/run/dev.db'' which contains the names of all of the character and
     block special files in the ``/dev'' directory, using the file type and the st_rdev field as the key.

     Keys are a structure containing a mode_t followed by a dev_t, with any padding zero'd out.  The former is the type of the file (st_mode &
     S_IFMT), the latter is the st_rdev field.

FILES

     /dev	      Device directory.
     /var/run/dev.db  Database file.

SEE ALSO

     ps(1), stat(2), db(3), devname(3), kvm_nlist(3), ttyname(3), kvm_mkdb(8)

HISTORY

     The dev_mkdb command appeared in 4.4BSD.

BSD
								   June 6, 1993 							       BSD
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