'slocate' is what I needed.
Since this computer is turned off at night, cron will not run slocate updates. so I
put a line in root's crontab:
@reboot sleep 1200; /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /etc/cron.daily/slocate
That makes my slocate database always updated.
Thanks for everybody.
Pedro
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:57:18PM -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I created a directory /home/pzn/private/ and chmod it go-rwx to put my private
>things.
> Then nobody can see the contents and files of this directory, right? I've
>believed it was true, but other user can do:
>
> $ ls -l ~pzn/
> ...
> drwx--S--- 20 pzn pzn 4096 Mai 16 09:54 private
> ...
> $ locate private | grep "/home/pzn/private"
> the whole contents of my private dir suddenly appears here...
>
> Why doesn't locate/updatedb saves the permissions?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Pedro
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