Re: new option for findutil's updatedb

[Kevin Dalley]

Fortunately, there's a simple solution to this problem.

The environment variable TMPDIR can be used for this purpose.  Just
set it before running updatedb.  I know this is true for the alpha
findutils (ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu).  I think that it has been around
for quite a while.

"Peter Icaza" <address@hidden> writes:

> hi,
> 
> for some reason, people like putting 1000's of small yet  "critical" files in
> /tmp and not clean them up.  for some reason the admin cleans up /tmp only 
> every
> 30 days.  for some reason i cant conveince people to use other dir's for their
> files.
> 
> for these reasons, updatedb fails because sort runs out of space on the /tmp
> file system.
> 
> therefore, may i suggest a -T option be used for updatedb to let sort use a
> different dir for its' temp files?
> 
> thanks from the trenches of the mainframe-minded healthcare industry,
> peter icaza
> 
> 
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