Bug#2791: locate seg faults if locatedb too big

[Kevin Dalley <kevin@aimnet.com>]

>>>>> "Guy" == Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> writes:

> On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
>> BTW, maybe this should go in a separate bug report, but I think that the
>> configuration for updatedb should go in a separate config file (maybe
>> /var/lib/locate/config), so that I don't lose the config whenever I
>> upgrade findutils.

> That's not necessary.  Instead of editing updatedb, just edit
> /etc/cron.daily/find, which is a conffile.  Then you won't lose your
> changes when you upgrade findutils.  You can program updatedb with
> arguments or environment variables.

Currently, there is not a way to pass arguments or environment
variables to updatedb so that additional file systems may be ignored.
This is something I plan on adding sometime in the future.  fstype is
more flexible than PRUNEPATHS.

kevin