Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:32:29 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Lee Gold <goldtech@worldpost.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unix locate cmd Message-ID: <20021001103229.GA89674@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <E17wK6C-0007P5-00@smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net> References: <E17wK6C-0007P5-00@smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net>
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On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:18:25AM -0500, Lee Gold wrote:
> I'm trying to use the locate cmd to find all
> instances of .xinitrc in my system. I did,
>
> root# /usr/libexec/locate.unpdatedb
> root# setenv $LOCATE_PATH /var/db/locate.database
>
> I've tried root# locate "filename"
> with different input but the command gives no
> feedback or output - it just goes to a new prompt.
> and of course,
> # locate .xinitrc or \.initrc or anything else gives no
> out from the cmd. what am I doing wrong?
Try using the /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate script. That script is
run once a week by default, so you should already have had a valid
locate.database if your system had been up at 4.15am on a Saturday.
If you look at the 310.locate script you can see one vitally important
point: it runs locate.updatedb as the unprivileged user "nobody" ---
that's a very important security feature. Note that the
locate.database file should be owned by the "nobody" user:
happy-idiot-talk:~:% ls -la /var/db/locate.database
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody wheel 1410147 Sep 28 04:15 /var/db/locate.database
Your command to set the LOCATE_PATH environment variable is:
a) not required --- locate is already set up to use
/var/db/locate.database by default
and
b) incorrectly specified. You should have typed:
setenv LOCATE_PATH /var/db/locate.database
Cheers,
Matthew
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