Bug#1239: /etc/cron.daily/find: updatedb doesn't exclude cdrom and others
Package: findutils
Version: 4.1-2
/etc/cron.daily/find in findutils-4.1-2.deb doesn't exclude the /cdrom
directory. I think it should, since the CD-ROM that is mounted the next
day probably isn't the one that was mounted during the night.
I assume it also doesn't exclude the /floppy, /proc, and /mnt directories,
but I haven't checked. (What's /disk?)
Fix: use a command similar to the following instead:
updatedb --prunepaths="/cdrom /tmp /var/tmp /proc" 2>/dev/null
(I choose to run this as root, instead of nobody, but that isn't a good
idea for most others.)
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