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tom56
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 Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:39 am Post subject: updatedb |
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I am fine with updatedb being run as a cron job, but is there any way to set which partitions it looks at. I have no need for it to add my windows hard drive to the database.
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bin-doph
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rtfm
check /etc/updatedb.conf also... its (as you would expect it) pretty self-explaining...
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tom56
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah sorry, I only just got up, not thinking straight. Didn't even think to do man updatedb 
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OT: great avatar bin-doph!!! I just love it...  |
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