Re: Updatedb error on find

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From: Jeff Uphoff
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 00:00

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"JSDY" == Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@cais2.cais.com> writes:

JSDY> Whichever you do, remember: do NOT just go into the 'updatedb' script
JSDY> with a slash-and-burn editing job, so that you forget what it looked
JSDY> like before and can't fix it if you learn that what I'm saying doesn't
JSDY> match your version.  First, use RCS 'ci' to check it into an RCS
JSDY> archive in an appropriate subdirectory of /usr/src/.  (You may have to
JSDY> make the appropriate subdirectory.)  Then check it out again with 'co',
JSDY> make the change, and remember to save the change using 'ci' again.  NOW
JSDY> you can copy the changed script back to /usr/bin/updatedb.

Wise words worth heeding!  I live by RCS; there's not a config file on
my system (that I've modified) that's not under RCS control.  It's the
only way to keep your sanity!

--Up.

-- 
Jeff Uphoff - systems/network admin.  |  juphoff@nrao.edu
National Radio Astronomy Observatory  |  jeff.uphoff@linux.org
Charlottesville, VA, USA              |  http://linux.nrao.edu/~juphoff/

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