At 20:55 -0500 10/8/06, Ken Williams wrote:
locate gluemac
While on this topic, one of the first things I do to any newly
installed Mac that I will use is to move the locate database update
from weekly to daily and remove the "run as nobody" so it runs as
root (otherwise it does not see any of my own files!).
Add /etc/daily.local:
#!/bin/sh -
#
# @(#)daily 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/25/94
#
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
if [ -x /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb ]; then
echo ""
echo "Rebuilding locate database:"
locdb=/var/db/locate.database
touch "${locdb}"; chown nobody "${locdb}"; chmod 644 "${locdb}"
# echo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb | nice -5 su -fm nobody 2>&1
| sed -e '/Permission denied/d'
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
chmod 444 "${locdb}"
fi
Delete the locate.updatedb code from /etc/weekly (unfortunately, you
have to do this to avoid it clobbering the good database with the bad
database for up to one day a week).
After this, locate works like Spotlight should, ie finds everything,
finds it very fast.
Eg, "locate s3 | grep pdf" - find the Amazon S3 documentation (|
xargs bbedit for good measure ;-)
Enjoy,
Peter.
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