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Subject: Re: Give users a hint when their locate database is too small.
From: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
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On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 11:05 -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 13 November 2012 10:58, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> 
> Okay... sorry for the spam. I remember there was a reason I used
> /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate instead of /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb.
> The latter must not be run as root, and the former takes care of this work.
> 
> Since the default is to enable weekly updates I am inclined to use the
> 310.locate script instead.
> 
> 
> 

Would it work to refer them to the locate.updatedb manpage (which
references the periodic script, and presumably would be kept up to date
with any script renaming/numbering)?

-- Ian