At 11:37 PM +0530 2/18/07, Vivek J. Patankar wrote: >Jonathan Rawle wrote: >> An alternative approach (assuming your FC4 directories are backups you don't >> need them very often) is to make them unreadable by ordinary users. locate >> won't return files you wouldn't have permission to see in a directory >> listing. So you can chmod the directories so they are only readable by >> root, then they won't show up in locate results. If you ever do want to >> find something in those directories, run locate as root. > >Won't work. The database for /locate/ is updated by a cron job that runs >as root. So it will index the entire filesystem, except for exclusions >set in updatedb.conf. Does too work, as only the files that would be visible to the user running locate will be reported by locate. See man updatedb, and try it. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
