Give users a hint when their locate database is too small.
Ian Lepore
freebsd at damnhippie.dyndns.org
Tue Nov 13 16:10:27 UTC 2012
On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 11:05 -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 13 November 2012 10:58, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>
> Okay... sorry for the spam. I remember there was a reason I used
> /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate instead of /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb.
> The latter must not be run as root, and the former takes care of this work.
>
> Since the default is to enable weekly updates I am inclined to use the
> 310.locate script instead.
>
>
>
Would it work to refer them to the locate.updatedb manpage (which
references the periodic script, and presumably would be kept up to date
with any script renaming/numbering)?
-- Ian
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