Hello. Today I found a very strange problem. Some files seem to be missing from locatedb database.
It all started with one particular file I wanted to find. But 'locate <word>' didn't find the file I was looking for. I went to the directory it was supposed to be, and there it was! I have a cron job to updatedb every night. In fact: $ ls -l /var/cache/locate/ total 7020 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7173582 2007-09-27 06:26 locatedb So it seems to be in order. The file I wanted was created in August. So? In fact, none the files in this directory is in the database! In case you're curious, the directory is named ~/textos/fisica/departamento_fisica/departamento In /etc/updatedb.conf, there is the following line: PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /afs /amd /alex /var/spool /sfs /media" So I don't think updatedb should omit this directory. In fact, none of the files in any subdirectory of ~/textos/fisica/departamento_fisica/ is indexed! I've made some random search of files in other directories, and they seem indexed. In fact files in ~/textos itself are indexed. Some files in the original problematic directory have permissions -rw------- (does updatedb respect this), but the file I was looking for in the first place has read permissions for all. I don't understand. Does any? Regards, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
