From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28192 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Nov 2003 23:24:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 8381 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2003 23:24:13 -0000 From: Steven Elling To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:24:07 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3FA5AF6F.5030501@codewordt.co.uk> <200311041706.38185.ellings@kcnet.com> <1067990060.31940.10.camel@rattus.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1067990060.31940.10.camel@rattus.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311071724.07729.ellings@kcnet.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email) X-Archives-Salt: af7751be-1b5b-493e-a185-85c6d0b0e9f9 X-Archives-Hash: bf84f1fba3ac461ba69188f13a990231 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 17:54, William Kenworthy wrote: > Not a good idea. slocates purpose is not just portage. Its used on a > running system to allow users to easily and quickly find any file. > Hence its run daily as users tend to create/delete files each day. I know what slocate and updatedb are used for. I'll explain my point of view. I view slocate and updatedb as utilities to help a user find system files NOT user files. I view the command 'find' as the utility of choice for finding user files. The reason I have this view is because I am a security aware individual. I set up slocate or updatedb so that it will not catalog files located in /tmp, /usr/tmp, /var/tmp, /mnt, /root, /usr/src, /var/spool, and /home. I also set users home directories to 0700. In this scenario, running slocate or updatedb daily is pointless, unless of course you update/install packages on your system every day. I didn't say slocate's purpose was for portage, I was just saying that in scenarios similar to mine it would be better to run or schedule slocate / updatedb after a world or system update because that is the only time cataloged files would change. > Your circumstance is not the most common one - not using linux all the > time. servers and user systems benefit from these facilities, both for > the admin and users in general. I also use a laptop and know what you > mean, and would be lost without an up-to-date locate with over 6Gbytes > of data files in my home directory - it does slow things down if you > dont "nice" it though. I tried to nice the programs but it doesn't seem to help my laptop. The system still slows to a crawl but then again I am talking about a Tecra 8000. I wish I could afford new hardware but being laid-off for about a year and a half with a mound of debt doesn't help. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list