[Nottingham] locate "better locate"

[Alex Tibbles]

--- Roger Light <rogerlight at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Here at work we have multiple unix machines and
> shared home
> directories via nfs. I'd like to be able to use
> locate at every
> machine and have it search the local filesystem as
> well as the remote
> nfs shares. This is possible using locate by having
> each machine trawl
> the entire nfs mount as well as its own drives - but
> it strikes me as
> horrible on network and disk performance at the
> server end.
> 
> I was hoping that I could create a database of the
> remote drive on the
> server and then locate could use both that and a
> local database to do
> its searches. Locate doesn't seem to allow me to
> specify multiple
> databases to search in though. I know that I can use
> --database to
> specify a single database but this is inconvenient
> for everyday use. I
> could always fudge an alias that runs locate twice,
> something like:
> 
> locate --database /path/to/local.db sausages
> locate --database /path/to/remote.db sausages
> 
> but I thought I might as well ask if anybody could
> suggest other
> search tools that might do what I want?

Would setting LOCATE_PATH to include each of the dbs
work for you(colon separated, I see from locate(1))?

Alex


	
	
		
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