updatedb stuff

Cain (cain@TASAM.COM)
Mon, 02 Mar 1998 19:55:27 -0500

>I should point out that it's actually /bin/sort that creates these
>files. The Solaris /bin/sort does the same, last I checked, which
>probably means most Unix implementations of sort do the same.
>
>Whether other implementations of sort are smarter than GNU sort with
>symlinks, etc., I don't know.
>
>Kragen

I can verify that it works on FreeBSD 2.2.2. I'm not sure if GNU's sort
is used here, but it will overwrite a file. A possible fix for this is
simple to not run updatedb as root, unfortunatly RedHat has it run as root
in the crontab :

02 1 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily

This is the directory where updatedb is called from.