Change to /tmp as /var/tmp is usually a symlink to /tmp
Also, /usr/tmp isn't in hier(7)
Index: weekly
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/weekly,v
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -p -r1.26 weekly
--- weekly 18 Apr 2014 10:00:48 -0000 1.26
+++ weekly 25 Jul 2015 15:09:01 -0000
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ if [ -f /var/db/locate.database ]; then
if TMP=`mktemp /var/db/locate.database.XXXXXXXXXX`; then
trap 'rm -f $TMP; exit 1' 0 1 15
UPDATEDB="/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb"
- echo "${UPDATEDB} --fcodes=- --tmpdir=${TMPDIR:-/var/tmp}" | \
+ echo "${UPDATEDB} --fcodes=- --tmpdir=${TMPDIR:-/tmp}" | \
nice -5 su -m nobody 2>/dev/null 1>$TMP
if [ -s "$TMP" ]; then
chmod 444 $TMP
Index: locate.rc
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RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/locate.rc,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -p -r1.6 locate.rc
--- locate.rc 18 Sep 2003 09:20:13 -0000 1.6
+++ locate.rc 25 Jul 2015 15:09:01 -0000
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
#
# temp directory
-TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
+TMPDIR="/tmp"
# the actual database
FCODES="/var/db/locate.database"
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ FCODES="/var/db/locate.database"
SEARCHPATHS="/"
# directories unwanted in output
-PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/tmp /usr/tmp"
+PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/tmp"
# filesystems allowed. Beware: a non-listed filesystem will be pruned
# and if the SEARCHPATHS starts in such a filesystem locate will build
