>I should point out that it's actually /bin/sort that creates these >files. The Solaris /bin/sort does the same, last I checked, which >probably means most Unix implementations of sort do the same. > >Whether other implementations of sort are smarter than GNU sort with >symlinks, etc., I don't know. > >Kragen I can verify that it works on FreeBSD 2.2.2. I'm not sure if GNU's sort is used here, but it will overwrite a file. A possible fix for this is simple to not run updatedb as root, unfortunatly RedHat has it run as root in the crontab : 02 1 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily This is the directory where updatedb is called from.
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