On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:54:00 -0600 Jeff Smelser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> On Wednesday 03 December 2003 07:52 pm, Stroller wrote:
> > My problem is that  updatedb is including the all the contents of my
> > mail folders, located in ~/.Maildir so that when I run `locate 123`,
> > for example looking for the media-sound/mpg123 ebuild, I get very many
> > entries like /home/stroller/.Maildir/.Some
> > Folder/cur/1233445437574657345476 scrolling right off the screen.
> > Clearly this is undesirable, as I am never going to try & locate an
> > email by its unique ID, and I have also noticed that the midnight
> > updatedb is becoming very slow.
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> This isn't possible. Slocate has privs in mind when you use locate. 

I'm not quite sure what you mean?  I run updatedb (slocate) as root.  There are
never any problems with locate from a normal user.


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