From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 1 09:05:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA06856 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:05:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpp.minn.net (root@p101.isc.net [206.144.132.101]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA06838 Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:05:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.minn.net (8.7.3/8.6.9) id LAA07358; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:00:44 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199604011700.LAA07358@mpp.minn.net> Subject: Re: locate To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:00:44 -0600 (CST) From: "Mike Pritchard" Cc: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: mpp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604010929.LAA00543@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Apr 1, 96 11:29:49 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > Thomas Gellekum writes: > >Mike Pritchard wrote: > >> What do people think of the idea of changing locate & its database > >> update script to keep a list of ALL files on the system, and > >> not just those that can been seen by the world. > > > >No, please. If the owner doesn't want to expose his files to the > >world, locate should respect this. > > Agreed. At my university I start the locate service for private home > directories with following find options: You guys didn't read my whole mail message. I also stated that if the database were to contain a list of all files, then locate would also be changed to verify that any files it prints out are accessible by the user running locate. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"