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Date:      Sat, 01 Nov 2003 09:48:34 +0100
From:      Norbert Koch <nk@viteno.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: periodic weekly and 'find' commands ...
Message-ID:  <vz65i4tqxp.fsf@redqueen.bytechase.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20031101024743.U35048@ganymede.hub.org> (Marc G. Fournier's message of "Sat, 1 Nov 2003 02:49:24 -0400 (AST)")
References:  <20031101024743.U35048@ganymede.hub.org>

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"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:

> I can see my machine running /usr/bin/periodic weekly right now, and it
> has a find running that I can't seem to find in any of the weekly scripts:
>
> find -s / ! ( -fstype ufs ) -prune -or -path /tmp -prune -or -path /usr/tmp -prune -or -path /var/tmp -prune -or -print
>
> I did a 'grep' for find in /etc/periodic/weekly/*, and none of the ones
> that are returned look even close :(

It looks like this is the find called by /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
to update your locate database.  It's called from 310.locate.

norbert.



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