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updatedb.conf(5)						File Formats Manual						  updatedb.conf(5)

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  char-
       acter 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)

mlocate 							     Jun 2008							  updatedb.conf(5)

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LOCATE.CONF(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual						    LOCATE.CONF(5)

NAME

     locate.conf -- locate database configuration file

DESCRIPTION

     The locate.conf file specifies the behavior of locate.updatedb(8), which creates the locate(1) database.

     The locate.conf file contains a list of newline separated records, each of which is composed of a keyword and arguments, which are separated
     by white space.  Arguments with embedded shell metacharacters must be quoted in sh(1) style.  Lines beginning with ``#'' are treated as com-
     ments and ignored.  However, a ``#'' in the middle of a line does not start a comment.

     The configuration options are as follows:

     ignore pattern ...
	     Ignore files or directories.  When building the database, do not descend into files or directories which match one of the specified
	     patterns.	The matched files or directories are not stored to the database.

	     Default: Not specified.

     ignorecontents pattern ...
	     Ignore contents of directories.  When building the database, do not descend into files or directories which match one of the speci-
	     fied patterns.  The matched files or directories themselves are stored to the database.

	     Default: Not specified.

     ignorefs type ...
	     Ignore file system by type, adding type to the default list.  When building the database, do not descend into file systems which are
	     of the specified type.  The mount points are not stored to the database.  If a ``!'' is prepended to type, the meaning is negated,
	     that is, ignore file systems which do not have the type.  As a special case, if ``none'' is specified for type, the ignorefs list is
	     cleared and all file systems are traversed.

	     type is used as an argument to find(1) -fstype.  The sysctl(8) command can be used to find out the types of file systems that are
	     available on the system:

		   sysctl vfs.generic.fstypes

	     Default: !local cd9660 fdesc kernfs procfs

     searchpath directory ...
	     Specify base directories to be put in the database.

	     Default: /

     workdir directory
	     Specify the working directory of locate.updatedb, in which a temporary file is placed.  The temporary file is a list of all files,
	     and you should specify a directory that has enough space to hold it.

	     Default: /tmp

     Refer to find(1) for the details of pattern (see -path expression) and type (see -fstype expression).

FILES

     /etc/locate.conf		   The file locate.conf resides in /etc.

SEE ALSO

     find(1), locate(1), locate.updatedb(8), sysctl(8)

HISTORY

     The locate.conf file format first appeared in NetBSD 2.0.

AUTHORS

     ITOH Yasufumi

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