Re: find and autofs

On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:39:46 +0100, Sidney Lambe wrote:

> On comp.os.linux.misc, Kevin the Drummer <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> I have a few cron jobs which start jobs like 'find / ....' and these
>> jobs, in cooperation with autofs tries to mount all of the hosts in my
>> /etc/hosts file as //net/somehost.fdqn.blah
>>
>> How can I constrain find to not try to search the network? My best
>> guess is to constrain it by filesystem type. I thought find had a
>> "stay local please" flag, but I can't find that in the manual page, in
>> the info pages, nor through the --help flag.
>>
>> Alternatively, if I could constrain autofs from looking into /etc/hosts
>> and trying to mount hosts that I haven't told it to mount, that would
>> be great too.
>>
>> Thanks...
>
> I think what you need to use is -prune to keep find from accessing the
> mount points of the remote file systems.

Yes or you could add them all to the updatedb.conf file and ensure that
updatedb sources it before running.

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>
> What a bunch of nonsense that is.

Indeed so -- your boss can still fire you for expressing your opinions
even if you put a disclaimer that it is your own opinion.

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And for a complete updatedb.conf to keep out the extranous stuff ...


#************************************************* ****************************#
#|
#| file : /etc/updatedb.conf
#|
#*---------------------------------------------------------------------------
*#
#
# Filesystem bind mounts are pruned from updatedb database.
#
#................................................. ............................#
#
PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS="yes"
#
#*---------------------------------------------------------------------------
*#
#
# Filesystems which are pruned from updatedb database.
#
#................................................. ............................#
#
PRUNEFS="afs auto autofs binfmt_misc cifs devpts iso9660 msdos ncpfs NFS
nfs pipefs proc rootfs selinuxfs sfs shm smbfs sockfs tmpfs udf usbdevfs"
#
#*---------------------------------------------------------------------------
*#
#
# Paths which are pruned from updatedb database.
#
#................................................. ............................#
#
PRUNEPATHS="/auto /boot /dev /export /initrd /lost+found /media /mnt /
net /proc /sys /tmp /usr/tmp /var/mail /var/run /var/spool /var/tmp"
#
#************************************************* ****************************#