FWIW, on my system it seems to work (and yes, I should upgrade!)
$ uname -a
OpenBSD foo.bar 4.3 GENERIC.MP#587 i386
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 03:09:50PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote:
>
> > Lesson #1: examine the anomalous data for clues.
> >
> > So, you're saying that
> > locate /usr | grep ^/usr | head
$ locate /usr | grep '^/usr' | head
/usr
...
> > returns nothing but
> >
> Yep! As does locate /usr
>
> > locate /home | grep ^/home | head
$ locate /home | grep '^/home' | head
/home
...
> > returns something? (/home being a stand-in for whatever your unsaid
> > "[user file] partition" is)
> >
> > Perhaps you should investigate how those two directories differ?
> >
> That was the original question - both are ffs, both are rw, the only
> difference between then that /home is nosuid, however that does not
> affect locate on 3.3, 4.9, or 5.0 (just tested).
$ mount
/dev/sd0a on / type ffs (local, with quotas)
/dev/sd1a on /home type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid, with quotas)
/dev/sd2a on /var type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid, with quotas)
> TFTR!
>
> Lee
--
Martin Bock :wq
