On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, michael wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:03:49 -0700, Chris Purves wrote
> > I am seeing different results from /etc/cron.daily/find and running
> > updatedb from the command line:
[ . . . ]
> > What are the differences between these and why does the daily cron job
> > find less files than running updatedb? I have a standard install and
> > have not modified either /etc/updatedb.conf or /etc/cron.daily/find. I
> > see the same behaviour on both stable and testing installs.
>
> I will take a stab at this and say that perhaps the cron.daily find
> command is run as the user "nobody" and so it only updates the locatedb
> for files that nobody can read.
> Please correct me if thats incorrect.
Mike is correct. Try installing the 'slocate' package, it will probably
behave the way you want.