On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:41 -0500, Matt wrote: > Is there anyway to tell "locate -u" to not look inside any directories
> such as ./cur or ./new to avoid wasting time indexing mail messages?
Yes.
> If so how do you do that?
'man updatedb' and 'man updatedb.conf' are your friend. But so am I, so
look for PRUNEPATHS and possibly add "/var/spool/mail" (or your local
variant) to it.