error messages from updatedb

[Eric]

You can add the argument --prunepaths=/proc,/dev to the updatedb command in
the root crontab entry.  This will keep find from looking down the /proc
or /dev subtree.

-Eric.

Mark Dyson writes:
 > 
 > I'm running the 1.2.8 kernal on a one-port PPP server, with a fairly   
 > standard configuration.  The only kernal tweaking was to enable the PPP   
 > forwarding option.  The system is a 486DX4/100 with 12MB of RAM and the   
 > install media was the Slackware Pro 2.3 CDROM using a   
 > soundblaster-compatible external CDROM unit.
 > 
 > The problem (more of an annoyance, really) is this:  Each time the   
 > default crontab executes updatedb, I get the following error message   
 > (repeated twice):
 > 
 > find: /proc/self/fd/4: No such file or device
 > 
 > Now, it's a no-brainer to go and see that, indeed, no such thing exists.   
 >  But I'm not clueful enough with updatedb to discover why it's trying to   
 > find this link, or how to tell it to stop looking.  Ideas?  Thanks!
 > 
 > mark  
 > 
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