Re: [SLUG] slocate

[Andrew Morton]

Gregg wrote:
> 
> Anyone know why slocate might start without my asking? My mp3s sounded like
> they had the hiccups so I looked at the processes running - two slocates
> had been running and chewing up about 33% of the cpu each.
> 
> The amount of time they had been running leads me to belive that I didn't
> start them and after thinking about it, may have started on the roll over.
> Anyone else get this (RH6.0)??

I've had problems with slocate hanging on vfat partitions.

A workaround is to disable scanning of the VFAT partitions: 

   1.Edit /etc/updatedb.conf 

     Add the mountpoints of the VFAT partitions to the EXCLUDE line: 

          EXCLUDE="/proc,/tmp/,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/net,/afs,/dosc,/dosd"

   2.Edit /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron 

     Add the VFAT partitions to the -e option to /usr/bin/slocate: 

          /usr/bin/slocate -u -e /tmp -e
"/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net,/proc,/dosc,/dosd";
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