'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
