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| author | Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> | 2020-02-04 14:00:20 -0800 |
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| committer | Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> | 2020-03-25 13:32:26 -0700 |
| commit | db28ce35357c15a1407eba23715938aa256d120e (patch) | |
| tree | be40cf56748c1743d3fe793dd05699e3851e48ce /nixos/modules/misc/locate.nix | |
| parent | a21c2fa3ea2b88e698db6fc151d9c7259ae14d96 (diff) | |
locate: Clarify mlocate warning message
Make it clear that the warning is that updatedb will run as root, not that locate will only run as root. Also explain how to silence the warning. Fixes #30864. Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'nixos/modules/misc/locate.nix')
| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/modules/misc/locate.nix | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/modules/misc/locate.nix b/nixos/modules/misc/locate.nix index 552535c253e61..e78c37a00134e 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/misc/locate.nix +++ b/nixos/modules/misc/locate.nix @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ in { { LOCATE_PATH = cfg.output; }; - warnings = optional (isMLocate && cfg.localuser != null) "mlocate does not support searching as user other than root" + warnings = optional (isMLocate && cfg.localuser != null) "mlocate does not support the services.locate.localuser option; updatedb will run as root. (Silence with services.locate.localuser = null.)" ++ optional (isFindutils && cfg.pruneNames != []) "findutils locate does not support pruning by directory component" ++ optional (isFindutils && cfg.pruneBindMounts) "findutils locate does not support skipping bind mounts"; |