On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:41:55 +0200 Martti Kühne <mysatyre@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 01:49:41PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote:
Right mlocate is installed updatedb takes no time it is instant it fails to read a thing .. it attempts to reads the NAS drive that i do NOT want read thats it nothing else
now can we have some sensible replies please ..
Pete .
try to ignore the bad vibes here and beat someone up IRL, it's more satisfying.
man updatedb.conf mentions PRUNEPATH. did you set that in /etc/updatedb.conf? can you paste your config, while we're at it?
cheers! mar77i
Hi .. Yes some people i would really like to meet face to face but still .. Right my /etc/updatedb.conf is as follows # directories to exclude from the slocate database: PRUNEPATHS="/media /mnt /tmp /var/tmp /var/cache /var/lock /var/run /var/spool /home/pete/nas /home/pete/Movies /home/pete/Music /home/pete/nas1" # filesystems to exclude from the slocate database: PRUNEFS="afs auto autofs binfmt_misc cifs coda configfs cramfs debugfs devpts devtmpfs ftpfs iso9660 mqueue ncpfs nfs nfs4 proc ramfs securityfs shfs smbfs sshfs sysfs tmpfs udf usbfs vboxsf" yet i get zero file finds for any file name that i know is definately on the system in a location that IS searchable Thanks Pete -- Linux 7-of-9 3.3.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 3 06:46:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux