Re: Missing files in locatedb
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On 09/27/07 12:38, Victor Munoz wrote:
> Hello. Today I found a very strange problem. Some files seem to be
> missing from locatedb database.
>
> It all started with one particular file I wanted to find. But 'locate
> <word>' didn't find the file I was looking for. I went to the
> directory it was supposed to be, and there it was!
>
> I have a cron job to updatedb every night. In fact:
>
> $ ls -l /var/cache/locate/
> total 7020
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7173582 2007-09-27 06:26 locatedb
>
> So it seems to be in order. The file I wanted was created in August. So?
>
> In fact, none the files in this directory is in the database!
>
> In case you're curious, the directory is named
>
> ~/textos/fisica/departamento_fisica/departamento
>
> In /etc/updatedb.conf, there is the following line:
>
> PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /afs /amd /alex /var/spool /sfs /media"
>
> So I don't think updatedb should omit this directory. In fact, none of
> the files in any subdirectory of ~/textos/fisica/departamento_fisica/
> is indexed!
>
> I've made some random search of files in other directories, and they
> seem indexed. In fact files in ~/textos itself are indexed.
>
> Some files in the original problematic directory have permissions
> -rw------- (does updatedb respect this), but the file I was looking
> for in the first place has read permissions for all.
>
> I don't understand. Does any?
When were these files created?
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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