I wanted to use locate to find some files today, but found that it doesn't index any of our NFS mounted files (i.e. the whole /cvs/cds/ and /opt/rtcds/ ).

So I went into /etc/updatedb.conf and edited it like so, so that it no longer ignores NFS type file systems:

controls@rossa:/etc 0$ diff updatedb.conf updatedb.conf~
4c4
< PRUNEFS="nfs4 rpc_pipefs afs binfmt_misc proc smbfs autofs iso9660 ncpfs coda devpts ftpfs devfs mfs shfs sysfs cifs lustre_lite tmpfs usbfs udf fuse.glusterfs fuse.sshfs ecryptfs fusesmb devtmpfs"
---
> PRUNEFS="NFS nfs nfs4 rpc_pipefs afs binfmt_misc proc smbfs autofs iso9660 ncpfs coda devpts ftpfs devfs mfs shfs sysfs cifs lustre_lite tmpfs usbfs udf fuse.glusterfs fuse.sshfs ecryptfs fusesmb devtmpfs"

The CRON.daily on ROSSA only should run each morning at 6:25 (under the ionice class 3 protocol as usual). If this seems OK after a week or so, we can do the same for the other CDS workstations (remembering to adjust their cron.daily times so that not every one hammers the NFS at the same time).