[6972] in testers
Re: 9.4 Linux: no locate database rebuild?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed May 11 17:15:37 2005
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:15:22 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
Cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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I use the locate database for searching my local hard drive.
Particularly for locating stuff I store in /var/local. Admittedly,
it is annoying to be logged in when the database is rebuilding, but I
do find it a useful feature. However, I don't consider it a show
stopper, particular since the locate database on Solaris was never
built nightly.
People who use it will expect it to be there, so it would be nice if
it was enabled. It certainly confused me briefly on my RHEL 4 system
when locate failed and attempting to run the cron job by hand also
didn't work, due to this new dependency on updatedb.conf
-Jon
At 4:58 PM -0400 5/11/05, Greg Hudson wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 15:18 -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
>> My perception is consistent with Alex's. A fair number of users find
>> it useful, and habitually try to use it (though, admittedly, some
>> of them should be trying to use ``whichlocker'' instead).
>
>Uh, how do they use it? (I assume most of these users are not using it
>to search for local data they've stored themselves on the machine.)
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