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Subject: Re: Locate updatedb
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Elijah Savage <esavage@reyrey.net> writes:

> Running 6.1 fresh install one of my routines after installing is
> updating the locate database but I am getting errors and it is not
> fulling updating.
>
> locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1027
> locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1027

You have paths that are over 1024 characters long.
Tell updatedb not to use them (/etc/locate.rc exists for this).