Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:09:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Cyrus Rahman <cr@photox.jcmax.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updatedb ? Message-ID: <199809121409.KAA26936@photox.jcmax.com>
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> /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate dies with:
>
> Rebuilding locate database:
> updatedb: locate database /tmp/locateW22380/_updatedb22378 is empty
Perhaps due to recent changes in /bin/sh, in locate.updatedb:
: ${SEARCHPATHS:="/"} # directories to be put in the database
...
$find $SEARCHPATHS [options, etc]
The above code now sets $SEARCHPATHS to the two byte value '210 /' instead of
the single character '/'. This confuses find.
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