-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/27/07 12:38, Victor Munoz wrote: > 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?
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