On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Payal wrote: > Hi, > I have installed loMandrake Linux 8.2 with mediumsecurity. > But when I type locate somefilename, I get only one or two instances of it > even thoguh the whole h/d including the windows partitions [vfat] has few > instances more. > I am not saying that it does not take from windowes partitions at all, but > it never searches the whole harddisk. > I have made necessary changes to up updatedb.conf in /etc which will allow > it to see the whole h/d. Then I ran updatedb & as well as slocate -u & to > be on safer side. Still not all of my h/d is covered. Some random portions > are never taken into account of. > Please tell me what is wrong. I had no problems like this with Mandrake > 8.0 or before.
It may be the newer security settings. Do you have the same problem if your run local as the root user? Does the un-privileged user have read access to the windows drives/partitions?
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