router:~# locate \* | wc -l
68558
router:~# updatedb
router:~# locate \* | wc -l
91395

Every night, updatedb runs, and updates, removing something like 21000
files from the locatedb.  Looking through the cron.daily, i see updatedb
runs as nobody.  Is there a particular danger in running this as other
than nobody?

thanks
mike

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