[ILUG] slocate and iso's...

Niall O Broin niall at linux.ie
Mon Aug 20 13:42:45 IST 2001


On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 09:15:46PM +0100, kevin lyda wrote:

> for some reason slocate is refusing to catalog a series of loop mounted
> iso's under /mnt/jukebox.  the call for updatedb is like so:
> 
> /usr/bin/updatedb -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts"
> 		  -e "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"
> 
> note that iso9660 and /mnt/jukebox are not on the list...

Is it perhaps a permissions issue ? updatedb is very often run as nobody.





Niall




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