Mine has this too, did you not have a /usr/preserve?
Otherwise it would just kill your vi journal file.
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> Hihi, our little training in risk-assessment tonight is the following
> sippet of a crontab entry, scheduled to run dayly around midnight:
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> (cd /usr/preserve ; find . -mtime +7 -a -exec rm -f {} \;)
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> why is this a bad idea and what happened to me last night as I was
> playing with my VAX6460?
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> Answer: the /usr/preserve was a symlink to /usr/var/preserve which
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> All files that were not accessed for more than 7 days were being deleted (and
> I basically installed this system 3 days ago but had fast forwarded my system
> time from 1976 to 2002 the day before. :-)
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Received on Wed Mar 20 2002 - 19:30:04 GMT