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In article <30bf9e85.42554c4c53455945@bullseye.apana.org.au>, Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
>My Slackware 2.3 (Infomagic Aug '95) Linux systems, with kernels
>upgraded to 1.2.13, both have the same small problem...
>
>The updatedb run from cron nightly emails root the following error
>messages:
>
>find: /proc/self/fd/4: No such file or directory
>find: /proc/self/fd/4: No such file or directory
>
>Can anyone give me any hints towards figuring out what is going on??
>

This means it can't find the subdirectory in proc... /proc is a *very*
dynamic filesystem, being the process related one.  It changes a lot.

May I suggest you run updatedb with this instead:

   updatedb --prunepaths='/tmp /proc /cdrom'

This will exclude /tmp, /proc and /cdrom from the locatedb... /tmp
because, well, it's temporary, /proc because it's *highly* volatile,
and you don't really want to search for files in there anyway, since
it's not a real filesystem and /cdrom because cdroms change regularly.
Unless of course you have the same cd mounted all the time, in which
case feel free to let it run on /cdrom

Later,

    Thorf

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