From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 12 07:10:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA03430 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 07:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from photox.jcmax.com (photox.jcmax.com [204.69.248.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA03425 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 07:09:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cr@photox.jcmax.com) Received: (from cr@localhost) by photox.jcmax.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA26936 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:09:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cr) Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:09:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Cyrus Rahman Message-Id: <199809121409.KAA26936@photox.jcmax.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updatedb ? Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate dies with: > > Rebuilding locate database: > updatedb: locate database /tmp/locateW22380/_updatedb22378 is empty Perhaps due to recent changes in /bin/sh, in locate.updatedb: : ${SEARCHPATHS:="/"} # directories to be put in the database ... $find $SEARCHPATHS [options, etc] The above code now sets $SEARCHPATHS to the two byte value '210 /' instead of the single character '/'. This confuses find. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message