Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:11:52 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com> Cc: mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>, FBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Locate command Message-ID: <20020204171152.F3722@gohan.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOAEJJCGAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:09:30PM -0500 References: <20020204170456.A97655@rochester.rr.com> <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOAEJJCGAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:09:30PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
> I edited the /etc/locate.rc file and uncommented the two
> statements you pointed out.
> Rebuilt locate DB using sh /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate
> It still did not pick up the non public files such as
> /usr/local/frontpage/version5.0/apache-fp/_vti_bin/fpexe,
> locate finds fpexe.c but not fpexe.
The commands to build the locate database are run as the user
'nobody.' If 'nobody' cannot read a directory, nothing below it will
find its way into the database. You can edit
/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate to have it run as a different user,
but if you want the world to know the files are there, why not make
the directories world readable in the first place?
> If the locate does not load all files on the FBSD slice into
> the locate database is there some other command which will
> tell me where all copies of a file are located?
You can always try find(1).
--
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