On 28/11/2018 03.11, Ralph wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:34:12 -0500 Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:
and perhaps my failing to read *completely* your question is another problem. "updatedb" is NOT intended to be performed by non-root user on openSUSE distro and has not in the past to my knowledge for a very long time. but you must account for brown-bottle pickled and aged memory. you must use "sudo" or otherwise elevate users privileges to root.
What can I say, as time goes by I'm finding that LOTS of things I do by habit on linux, as a user, things that I have done since the last century, are all of a sudden "not supported by" whatever distro. A year(?) ago I was told by opensuse bugzilla folks that booting with the root partition in the extended partition on bios drives isn't supported, but I've been doing that on every/all of my machines since forever (except for one new uefi machine bought last year).
That's absurd, YaST installed the system automatically in that way for me years ago.
Anyway, in this case, updatedb-for-users IS explained in the man pages, down near the bottom, one of the examples, which is probably where I originally got it from. The current man page is recent, well, recent as man pages go, dated 2008, but it's still there. If it's not supported then the man page should be changed.
Yep. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)