Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:34:23 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: locate.update runs even if it cannot write the results Message-ID: <20011018073423.C36953@roman.mobil.cz>
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Hi there,
sometime last week I ran /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb by hand, only to
realize after 15 minutes of thrashing the disk that I'm not logged in as
root. The script failed because it couldn't write the db. I think that
this is pretty annoying -- not the fact that I need to be root in order
to run this (if and when I want to run it by hand), but the fact that it
runs when it shouldn't. I wrote myself a little patch to save me some
time for the next time.
Do you think a check like this belongs in the scripts? If it does, then
similar tests should be added to the other locate.* scripts as well,
which I'd be glad to do (I only patched this one so far).
Roman
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--- locate.updatedb.orig Fri Oct 12 18:25:21 2001
+++ locate.updatedb Thu Oct 18 07:21:19 2001
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@
: ${FILESYSTEMS:="ufs"} # allowed filesystems
: ${find:=find}
+if [ ! -w $FCODES ]; then
+ echo "$0: cannot write $FCODES"; exit 1;
+fi
+
case X"$SEARCHPATHS" in
X) echo "$0: empty variable SEARCHPATHS"; exit 1;; esac
case X"$FILESYSTEMS" in
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