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On 4/14/06, Michael Johnson <mjohnson at coderyte.com> wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > IMHO, Red Hat got this wrong...  Have a look at the cron job that's
> > supposed to generate the catalog and you'll see how they screwed it
> > up.
>
> This can't be serious!
>
> /usr/bin/updatedb -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e "/"
>
> So basically, run it except for every file system you're going to
> ever attach to it (okay so I can understand that a little) and
> exclude the root directory.  So basically, it's going to do nothing.

No, so basically it will store meaningful information about the local
filesystem.

John