Take the 2-minute tour ×  Spotlight, is a fantastic tool. Took
some years, but now I use the command line tools and it's
awesome. However today, I found that spotlight does not index
/System (!) I'd like spotlight to index everything and that way
I can cobble together a nifty IDS solution.  How can I index
every single thing on my drive? Querying the last modified time
would help a lot in security.  EDIT: Simply for reference.
mdutil -pEsa -i (on|off) volume ...     Utility to manage
Spotlight indexes.     -p      Publish metadata.     -E
Erase and rebuild index.     -s      Print indexing status.
-a      Apply command to all volumes.     -v      Display
verbose information. NOTE: Run as owner for network homes,
otherwise run as root.  EDIT: Upon further investigation, the
tool I wanted was radmind  share|improve this question I think I
got it working by forcing it using the root user, mdutil -E /
Seems obvious but I'm unsure. I can find ARD agent and all that
other stuff now though... –  chiggsy N