-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yura Gusev wrote: | Martin Ma�ok said: | |>On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:47:58PM -0700, David Walser wrote: |> |>>locate is likely only going to be used on desktops, I |>>can't see it getting much use on a dedicated server. |> |>There are several use on a server too... sometimes I wanna see if |>users are not sharing/uploading mp3's or what, so I do "locate .mp3" or |>"locate .avi" to see ... Or sometimes I just can't remember where |>exactly is stored some include_xyz.php in a webtree, so I do "locate |>include_xyz.php" etc... I really use it on servers and on desktops too. | | | | You can use find /home -printf "%s %p\n" | sort -g -r to list files | ordered by their size,
You would rather run this on a 100GB software RAID disk while users are using it, than update the locate db at 4am every morning (when, hopefully if amanda is finished with backups, the machine is idle)???? | you can limit maximum file size using* hard fsize 100000 in /etc/security/limits.conf and you can also use | quota (even without limit's it can tell you how much diskspace user uses) | And you don't really need daily locate on the production serever. | You can also create a filter for ftp that will not accept mp3 files (i | dont know how doto this one but i know you can do it with pureftpd) This assumes FTP or samba which can do this, but what about NFS? | You can also create a crons cript that will simply delete thouse files ;-) It's still quite obvious that locate is useful on production servers, it depends what the server is doing though. File servers (which is one of our most important uses of Mandrake) which share files out to many desktop users using both windows (via samba) and linux (via NFS) do have a use for this. But that's ok, I can move locate from daily to weekly when we upgrade our server (I will have to try and remember though). Buchan - -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9LWMcrJK6UGDSBKcRAiJ3AJ9LyQh7CfhYmpCA/OjawJX7mToPpACgi2H5 eYAJlfge9f9knpmPGO1uRbc= =8JwS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
