On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:27:09PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > router:~# locate \* | wc -l > 68558 > router:~# updatedb > router:~# locate \* | wc -l > 91395 > > Every night, updatedb runs, and updates, removing something like 21000 > files from the locatedb. Looking through the cron.daily, i see updatedb > runs as nobody. Is there a particular danger in running this as other > than nobody?
On your router, likely there is no harm in having a full locatedb. On a true multi-user system, users want to be able to chmod go-rwx their directories and not have the names of files still available to random other users on the system. AFAIK that is the reason. Cheers, Joost
