Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:01:47 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: any plans to enhance 'locate'? Message-ID: <461F1CCB.7070504@ispro.net>
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Hi, I am wondering if there are any plans to enhance the locate command. As you know, Linux slocate is storing file owner/perm info into database and it is able to show all files when the user is root compared to FreeBSD locate where you can only search files which can be listed by nobody user. I realized that this comes very handy when I am looking for certain files if I can see the files owned by root 'only' when I am root. Is there a reason why there is no port for slocate or the FreeBSD locate to not to be enhanced this way? There seems to be a port for this for Mac OS X: http://slocate.darwinports.com/dports/sysutils/slocate/ There are people trying to do workarounds: http://freebsd.munk.me.uk/archives/207-Let-root-see-all-files-with-locate.html Thanks, Evren
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