slocate doesn't

[inode0]

On 4/14/06, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Oh my. Where did that come from? It should exclude network filesystems
and things like proc but not /.

John