On Monday 14 Feb 2005 20:31 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2005-02-13 at 13:22 +0100, Dan Am wrote:
Apart from these advantages, AFAIR the trouble is, that it updates "atime" on all files, which can mess up backups. That is probably, why it is not installed by default.
Not so. The issue is security: not allowing any user to know the names and locations of every file.
Indeed. If this worries you, make sure you run the updatedb as "nobody". This can be set in /etc/sysconfig/locate with the normal SuSE package (and may be the default, I can't remember.) It's the RUN_UPDATEDB_AS variable. You can also set up various options for directories not to look into, etc., in that file. This can be edited nicely with the "Editor for /etc/sysconfig files" in YaST, of course. M -- "It's the small gaps between the rain that count, and learning how to live amongst them." -- Jeff Noon