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Operating Systems Solaris Equivalent to locate Post 302091895 by Sowser on Thursday 5th of October 2006 04:53:00 PM
Old 10-05-2006
A pretty good way of doing find is by actually disabling it! hear me out.

Only allow root to use it. Take a full listing of the entire server and stick it into a file. And do this once per week, stick it in cron. That way you only have 'find' run once a week. All users of the system can then search through the file for the find, they can simply grep it out. It is MUCH better on the system. 'find' is resource intensive. Your system will run much smoother if you know you have a lot of users constantly looking for files.

If once a week aint good enough, try it twice accordingly to your environment.

-Sowser
 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

catman.local

MAKEWHATIS.LOCAL(8)					    BSD System Manager's Manual 				       MAKEWHATIS.LOCAL(8)

NAME

     makewhatis.local, catman.local -- start makewhatis or catman for local file systems

SYNOPSIS

     /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local [options] directories ...
     /usr/libexec/catman.local [options] directories ...

DESCRIPTION

     The makewhatis.local utility starts makewhatis(1) only for file systems physically mounted on the system where the makewhatis.local is being
     executed.	Running makewhatis by periodic weekly for rw nfs-mounted /usr may kill your NFS server -- all NFS clients start makewhatis at the
     same time!  So use this wrapper for cron(8) instead of calling makewhatis directly.  The catman.local utility is using for same purposes as
     makewhatis.local but for catman(1).

FILES

     /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis	  run makewhatis.local every week
     /etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman	  run catman.local every week

SEE ALSO

     catman(1), find(1), makewhatis(1), cron(8), periodic(8)

HISTORY

     The makewhatis.local utility appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

BSD
								  April 26, 1996							       BSD
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