Re: Omission from updatedb exclusion list

[Greg Trounson <gregt maths otago ac nz>]

I see that according to bug #122499 this was fixed in slocate 2.7-10 in 
May 2004, but this never made it to Fedora Core 2.  The latest version 
available on the repositories is still 2.7-9.

What gives?

Greg

Greg Trounson wrote:
> Gidday,
>
> My Fedora Core 2 machine here has been accumulating dead updatedb 
> processes lately (there are currently 40 processed with 'D' status), and 
> I've just figured out why:
>
> I have mounted some rather large and complex shares on a windows 2003 
> server domain controller using CIFS, the successor to SMB.  Problem is, 
> cifs is not explicitly mentioned in /etc/updatedb.conf.  Normally, an 
> SMB mount would be 'pruned' from the search path so the daily updatedb 
> cron job would skip it.  But now updatedb merrily jumps onto the windows 
> share and tries to index it, invariably geting bogged down in 
> unreasonably long paths and weird characters.
>
> I would like to propose that "cifs" be included in the PRUNEFS line of 
> /etc/updatedb.conf in future versions of slocate.
>
> thanks,
> Greg
>
> Modified updatedb.conf follows:
>
> PRUNEFS="sysfs selinuxfs usbdevfs devpts NFS nfs afs sfs proc smbfs 
> autofs auto iso9660 cifs"
> PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /afs /net /sfs /selinux /udev"
> export PRUNEFS
> export PRUNEPATHS

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