On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:54:00 -0600 Jeff Smelser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 03 December 2003 07:52 pm, Stroller wrote: > > My problem is that updatedb is including the all the contents of my > > mail folders, located in ~/.Maildir so that when I run `locate 123`, > > for example looking for the media-sound/mpg123 ebuild, I get very many > > entries like /home/stroller/.Maildir/.Some > > Folder/cur/1233445437574657345476 scrolling right off the screen. > > Clearly this is undesirable, as I am never going to try & locate an > > email by its unique ID, and I have also noticed that the midnight > > updatedb is becoming very slow. > > This isn't possible. Slocate has privs in mind when you use locate. I'm not quite sure what you mean? I run updatedb (slocate) as root. There are never any problems with locate from a normal user. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
