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To: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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Thomas Gellekum writes:
>Mike Pritchard wrote:
>> What do people think of the idea of changing locate & its database
>> update script to keep a list of ALL files on the system, and
>> not just those that can been seen by the world.
>
>No, please. If the owner doesn't want to expose his files to the
>world, locate should respect this.

Agreed. At my university I start the locate service for private home
directories with following find options:

gfind /home/all \( -name prv -prune \) -or \( -name privat -prune \) -or \(
-name private -prune \) -or \( -name Mail -prune \) -or \( -name mail
-prune \) -or -print

The whole locate database is now 16MB big ;-)


>I'd prefer a new option to locate which gives the name of (an)
>alternate database(s), so you could run locate for yourself. This
>could also be used to locate files on NFS-mounted filesystems.

Done (still not in -current).

Wolfram