On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 03:10:35PM -0600, Bryan Walton wrote: > Greetings, > Today, I have noticed that when I do a locate on something, I get > a warning message that locatedb is more than 8 days old. See the example: > Any ideas about what this means?
The program "updatedb" needs to run regularly to update your locate database. - Take a look at you /etc/crontab. Mine shows: # m h dom mon dow user command 40 6 * * * root run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily If you look in /etc/cron.daily directory, you will see a "find" script, and if you look in that, you will see it calls updatedb. In my case it runs at 6:40am every morning (I think that is a non standard time that I chose). If my computer isn't powered up at that time, it wouldn't run. Is that your case? - I have a potato machine I upgraded from slink a few months ago. It seemed like there was a typo in one of the scripts (or something like that) which caused this problem as you described, even if the machine was left on. I think the problem got fixed when I did an apt-get upgrade. I might be wrong about this, it's been a while . . . - If in doubt, run "updatedb" as root before doing a locate (like if you just installed new packages and want to do a search). -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux