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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 span-
ning 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.

When scanning a file system is skipped, all filesystems mounted in the sub-
tree are skipped too, even if their type does not match any entry in
PRUNEFS.

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).

The default values of both variables are empty.

NOTES
Unlike the traditional behavior of PRUNEFS and PRUNEPATHS, which excludes the
matched directory (or the root of a matched filesystem) from the created database,
the matched directory is entered in the created database. This allows e.g. locate
/tmp to find the standard temporary directories even though their contents are
excluded from the database.

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 AT redhat.com>