Bug 337281

Summary:	Man pages of "updatedb" and "slocate" need additional remarks
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	David Tonhofer <bughunt>
Component:	slocate	Assignee:	Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	4.0	CC:	jwest, sputhenp, tao
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Description David Tonhofer 2007-10-18 07:13:28 UTC

Description of problem:

Not enough info in the man pages of "updatedb" and "slocate"

In particular: 

1) The man page of "slocate" should cross-reference "updatedb" in 
   a "SEE ALSO" section

2) The man page of "updatedb" should mention the files
   "/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron" and "/etc/updatedb.conf".
   It should also mention the environment variables PRUNEFS and
   PRUNEPATH which seem to be used by "updatedb" as complement (?)
   to the command line arguments. It should also mention that to
   have updatedb run daily, one has to edit "/etc/updatedb.conf" and
   set DAILY_UPDATE to "yes"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

slocate-2.7-13.el4.6

Comment 1 Miloslav Trmač 2007-10-18 17:20:46 UTC

Thanks for your report.

If you are a RHEL customer and have an active support entitlement, please
contact official Red Hat Support at https://www.redhat.com/apps/support/ to
allow correct prioritization of this issue.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2008-02-01 19:00:53 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2008-10-31 16:37:20 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".