Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 15:22:17 -0800 From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: problems rebuilding locate database Message-ID: <3C9D0E29.70801@mac.com> References: <3C9CEDC8.4070001@mac.com> <041f01c1d2b2$bce32920$0900a8c0@max>
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John Nielsen wrote:
>>
>
> I would guess that it means you have pathnames on your system that are
> longer than the (max allowed) of 1024. i.e.
> "/usr/foo/...1020chars.../bar/baz"
>
> If that's the case then you can solve it by moving the offending files to
> a not-so-nested directory. Or you could try to increase the value of
> MAXPATHLEN, but I'm not sure where that's defined or what would break if
> it changed.
well, I ran this:
find / xargs dirname | awk '{ a=length; print $0, a }'>
/usr/file.list
and this:
sort -T /usr +2 -rn /usr/file.list > /usr/sorted
the longest path turned out to be 194, nowhere near 1024.
I did find a lot of cruft I could do without, and am now
re-running locate's update script by hand.
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