Give users a hint when their locate database is too small.

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Tue Nov 13 03:07:49 UTC 2012


What do people think of this? Maybe /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb is a
better pointer?

commit fb03b777daf2c69bb9612902e38fdb25b256be72
Author: Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 12 22:05:55 2012 -0500

    Give users a hint when their locate database is too small.

    Reviwed by:	???
    Approved by:	???
    MFC after:	3 weeks

diff --git a/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.c b/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.c
index b0faefb..f0c8c37 100644
--- a/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.c
+++ b/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.c
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ search_mmap(db, s)
 		err(1, "`%s'", db);
 	len = sb.st_size;
 	if (len < (2*NBG))
-		errx(1, "database too small: %s", db);
+		errx(1, "database too small: %s\nTry running
/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate", db);

 	if ((p = mmap((caddr_t)0, (size_t)len,
 		      PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED,


-- 
Eitan Adler


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