NAME¶
/etc/updatedb.conf - a configuration file for
updatedb(8)
DESCRIPTION¶
/etc/updatedb.conf is a text file. Blank lines are ignored. A
#
character outside of a quoted string starts a comment extending until end of
line.
Other lines must be of the following form:
VARIABLE =
"VALUE"
White space between tokens is ignored.
VARIABLE is an alphanumeric string
which does not start with a digit.
VALUE can contain any character
except for
". No escape mechanism is supported within
VALUE
and there is no way to write
VALUE spanning more than one line.
Unknown
VARIABLE values are considered an error. The defined variables
are:
- PRUNEFS
- A whitespace-separated list of file system types (as used in
/etc/mtab) which should not be scanned by updatedb(8). The
file system type matching is case-insensitive. By default, no file system
types are skipped.
When scanning a file system is skipped, all file systems mounted in the
subtree are skipped too, even if their type does not match any entry in
PRUNEFS.
- PRUNENAMES
- A whitespace-separated list of directory names (without paths) which
should not be scanned by updatedb(8). By default, no directory
names are skipped.
Note that only directories can be specified, and no pattern mechanism (e.g.
globbing) is used.
- PRUNEPATHS
- A whitespace-separated list of path names of directories which should not
be scanned by updatedb(8). Each path name must be exactly in the
form in which the directory would be reported by locate(1).
By default, no paths are skipped.
- PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS
- One of the strings 0, no, 1 or yes. If
PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS is 1 or yes, bind mounts are not
scanned by updatedb(8). All file systems mounted in the subtree of
a bind mount are skipped as well, even if they are not bind mounts. As an
exception, bind mounts of a directory on itself are not skipped.
By default, bind mounts are not skipped.
NOTES¶
When a directory is matched by
PRUNEFS,
PRUNENAMES or
PRUNEPATHS,
updatedb(8) does not scan the contents of the
directory. The path of the directory itself is, however, entered in the
created database. For example, if
/tmp is in
PRUNEPATHS,
locate(1) will not show any files stored in
/tmp, but it can
show the
/tmp directory. This behavior differs from traditional
locate implementations.
In some
updatedb(8) implementations
PRUNEPATHS can be used to
exclude non-directory files. This is not the case in this implementation.
/etc/updatedb.conf is a shell script in some implementations, which
allows much more flexibility in defining the variables. Equivalent
functionality can be achieved by using the command-line options to
updatedb(8).
AUTHOR¶
Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>
SEE ALSO¶
locate(1),
updatedb(8)