Subject: locate warning . . . ? Date: Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 03:10:35PM -0600
In reply to:Bryan Walton Quoting Bryan Walton([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| 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: >| --cut-- >| >| work:/home/walton# locate xf86config >| locate: warning: database `/var/lib/locate/locatedb' is more than 8 days >| old >| /usr/share/alien/patches/xf86config-glibc_1.0.0.i386-3.diff.gz >| /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config >| /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xf86config.1x.gz >| >| --cut-- >| >| Any ideas about what this means? >| >| Thanks, >| Bryan Walton Umm, that the locate database has not been updated in 8 days. read man updatedb then try this updatedb --prunepaths='/tmp /proc /cdrom /mnt /var/spool' > /dev/null 2>&1 HTH -- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. _______________________________________________________