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updatedb stuff
From: cain () TASAM COM (Cain)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 19:55:27 -0500
I should point out that it's actually /bin/sort that creates these files. The Solaris /bin/sort does the same, last I checked, which probably means most Unix implementations of sort do the same. Whether other implementations of sort are smarter than GNU sort with symlinks, etc., I don't know. Kragen
I can verify that it works on FreeBSD 2.2.2. I'm not sure if GNU's sort is used here, but it will overwrite a file. A possible fix for this is simple to not run updatedb as root, unfortunatly RedHat has it run as root in the crontab : 02 1 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily This is the directory where updatedb is called from.
Current thread:
- overwrite any file with updatedb Cain (Mar 01)
- Re: overwrite any file with updatedb Kragen (Mar 02)
- Re: overwrite any file with updatedb Kragen (Mar 02)
- Re: overwrite any file with updatedb Dave G. (Mar 02)
- Re: overwrite any file with updatedb Jeff Murphy (Mar 02)
- Re: overwrite any file with updatedb Bryan Andregg (Mar 02)
- updatedb stuff Cain (Mar 02)