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 spanning 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.  By default, no file
              system types are skipped.

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

       PRUNENAMES
              A  whitespace-separated  list  of  directory  names (without paths) which should not be scanned by
              updatedb(8).  By default, no directory names are skipped.

              Note that only directories can be specified, and no pattern mechanism (e.g.  globbing) is used.

       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).

              By default, no paths are skipped.

       PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS
              One of the strings 0, no, 1 or yes.  If PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS is 1 or yes, bind mounts are not scanned
              by updatedb(8).  All file systems mounted in the subtree of a bind mount are skipped as well, even
              if they are not bind mounts.  As an exception, bind mounts  of  a  directory  on  itself  are  not
              skipped.

              By default, bind mounts are not skipped.

NOTES

       When  a directory is matched by PRUNEFS, PRUNENAMES or PRUNEPATHS, updatedb(8) does not scan the contents
       of the directory.  The path of the directory itself is, however, entered in the  created  database.   For
       example,  if /tmp is in PRUNEPATHS, locate(1) will not show any files stored in /tmp, but it can show the
       /tmp directory.  This behavior differs from traditional locate implementations.

       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@redhat.com>

SEE ALSO

       locate(1), updatedb(8)