Locate updatedb

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Thu Jul 27 12:48:52 UTC 2006


Elijah Savage <esavage at reyrey.net> writes:

> Running 6.1 fresh install one of my routines after installing is
> updating the locate database but I am getting errors and it is not
> fulling updating.
>
> locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1027
> locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1027

You have paths that are over 1024 characters long.
Tell updatedb not to use them (/etc/locate.rc exists for this).


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