On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Yes, and while locate is great for older files, is not really intended for >> detecting files which have appeared over the past day on a fileserver. By >> default, the locate DB is only rebuilt once a week under OS X.... > > It is entirely configurable and you can build as many DB's as you like and > place them anywhere you like. It's Unix - you're allowed to think.
Indeed: so think about the tradeoffs of rebuilding locate databases at least daily versus running find once a day. And then consider that you can point find just at the export point of the OP's fileserver, whereas locate.updatedb will index all local filesystems. -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
