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Date:      Tue, 01 Oct 2002 13:05:47 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>
Cc:        Lee Gold <goldtech@worldpost.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: unix locate cmd 
Message-ID:  <20021001200547.1BD7C5D04@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 2002 13:00:09 PDT." <20021001200009.GK77771@vectors.cx> 

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> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:00:09 -0700
> From: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> k. first of all, do you actually HAVE any copies of an .xinitrc file?
> the system-wide one has no dot.
> 
> if you DO have one, it's typically in ~/.xinitrc. is your /home
> partition not a ufs partition? locacte.updatedb will only index ufs
> partitions by default.

Also, locate.updatedb runs as nobody so it will only index directories
and files with other read access. 

From the man page for locate:
     The locate database was built by user ``nobody''.  find(1) skips directo-
     ries, which are not readable for user ``nobody'', group ``nobody'', or
     world.  E.g. if your HOME directory is not world-readable, all your files
     are not in the database.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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