Locate with exclude?

Vivek J. Patankar list307 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 18 18:07:00 UTC 2007


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.

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Vivek J. Patankar

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