> On Dec 4, 2003, at 2:11 am, Collins Richey wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 01:52:42 +0000 Stroller > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> > >> It is conceivable, however, that I might have several users on the > >> system, each of whom has a large Maildir who yet may > desire to be able > >> to locate other files in /home. PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/tmp > >> /home/*/.Maildir" does not work, nor does PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/tmp > >> /.Maildir". > >> > >> Can anyone possibly suggest to me how I can exclude from > the slocate > >> database users' Maildirs, but NOT their other /home files..? > > > > I would think add one statement for each user. > > /home/user1/.maildir.... > > > > Personally, I just execute 'updatedb -e dir1,dir2,dir3 > > > > where dir1, etc. is the fully qualified path for a > directory I want to > > exclude. > > Whilst this is practical on my current system, it wouldn't be > should I > expand to 50... 500... 5000 users. So I guess that in that case I'd > have to write a script to read usernames from /etc/passwd & enter > "/home/$USERNAME/.Maildir" into PRUNPATHS, which is rather a > chore. Any > other suggestions much appreciated.
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