Bryan, The error means that updatedb has not been run through your cron scripts as it should have. su to the root account and try running /etc/cron.daily/find and see if you get any errors.
Steve 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: > --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 > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null