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Date:      Sun, 23 Feb 1997 13:17:42 +0100 (MET)
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
To:        Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com (Don Lewis)
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: improved setuid and device file checker for /etc/security
Message-ID:  <199702231217.NAA16739@gvr.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199702230636.WAA22830@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> from Don Lewis at "Feb 22, 97 10:36:27 pm"

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Don Lewis wrote:
> A few weeks ago I solicited input on how to prevent locate.updatedb and
> /etc/security wasting a lot of time digging around the article spool on
> our news server.  I got a lot of suggestions on different ways to tweak
> these scripts to prevent this, but the suggestions mostly involved making
> custom changes to these scripts that would be somewhat of a hassle to
> maintain.

The locate stuff is easy. You can specify parts that have to be skipped.
If I remember corectly, it can be controlled by locate.conf in /etc.
But only in 2.2.

-Guido



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