On Dec 4, 2003, at 2:11 am, Collins Richey wrote:
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 01:52:42 +0000 Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
It is conceivable, however, that I might have several users on the system, each of whom has a large Maildir who yet may desire to be able to locate other files in /home. PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/tmp /home/*/.Maildir" does not work, nor does PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/tmp /.Maildir".
Can anyone possibly suggest to me how I can exclude from the slocate database users' Maildirs, but NOT their other /home files..?
I would think add one statement for each user. /home/user1/.maildir....
Personally, I just execute 'updatedb -e dir1,dir2,dir3
where dir1, etc. is the fully qualified path for a directory I want to exclude.
Whilst this is practical on my current system, it wouldn't be should I expand to 50... 500... 5000 users. So I guess that in that case I'd have to write a script to read usernames from /etc/passwd & enter "/home/$USERNAME/.Maildir" into PRUNPATHS, which is rather a chore. Any other suggestions much appreciated.
Stroller.
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