updatedb error

Vivek J. Patankar list307 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 00:06:48 UTC 2007


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> The /sys file system is not a real file system - it is created as
> part of udev, and contains information about hardware and drivers on
> the running system. updatedb should not be checking this tree at
> all. I wounder if /sys should be added to the PRUNEPATHS list in
> /etc/updatedb.conf - that way the directory would be skipped.

I added /sys and /proc in PRUNEPATHS in updatedb.conf.
Question is should we file an RFE for this to be part of defaults?


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विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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