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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:15:36 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Give users a hint when their locate database is too small.
Message-ID:  <E179A930-B927-45E4-8163-038E52F36883@gmail.com>
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On Nov 13, 2012, at 8:05 AM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:

> On 13 November 2012 10:58, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
>=20
> 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=
.
>=20
> Since the default is to enable weekly updates I am inclined to use the
> 310.locate script instead.

Ok. The only thing about hardcoding an=20
RC script name into a binary is that I felt it was more likely to change whe=
reas locate.updatedb is more constant..
Thanks!
-Garrett=



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