-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 09:26 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > 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.
Ok, What he is trying to do, isn't possible. He would have to write some sort of script and inject into into prune path of all the maildir's he may have.. The second part is a goof, I thought he wouldn't want other users being able to search for his mail. (for ex). But slocate takes privileges into account... My mistake on that. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zyeLld4MRA3gEwYRArcwAKCIGxTYOaKXH+RzvQtlR6mZHBRhbQCffb18 0uJlln5gfDb+qM6fqHKV4Aw= =fMDa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
