Re: locatedb question

2001-07-19 Thread Mike Dresser
> As I said the first time, updatedb.conf isn't used in casual use of > updatedb. Look at the cron job: > > if [ -f /etc/updatedb.conf ]; then > . /etc/updatedb.conf > fi > > That '.' means that the contents of updatedb.conf are read and used to > set environment variables. If you were doin

Re: locatedb question

2001-07-18 Thread Joost Kooij
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 se

Re: locatedb question

2001-07-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > P

Re: locatedb question

2001-07-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 at 15:19:06 -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: [Please do *not* cc me on list mail. I read the list. Thanks.] > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > Perhaps it's ignoring some of the paths and filesystems it's told to > > prune in /etc/updatedb.conf? Those are only noticed by

Re: locatedb question

2001-07-18 Thread Alan Shutko
Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, there´s no point in making files only readable by specific users/ > groups if locate would locate them just nicely for everyone ;-) Of course there is! They may be able to locate them, but they still can't _read_ them. Now, there may be cases

Re: locatedb question

2001-07-18 Thread Colin Watson
Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Perhaps it's ignoring some of the paths and filesystems it's told

Re: locatedb question

2001-07-18 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:27:09 EDT, Mike Dresser writes: >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 multi-u

Re: locatedb question

2001-07-18 Thread Mike Dresser
I believe there's a restricted locate, called slocate. Then again, it looks like it's trying to do the same thing anyways, so that's what's confusing me. Fortunately, I have no shell users =) On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:27:09 EDT, Mike Dresser writes: >