On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 21:38, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Argh. Forgot about anacron. I always install it. At a few minutes after 12, > just now, it ran. For a very short while. Guess what happened? :-( > > BTW, is there any chance someone can look at their /var/lib/slocate.db.tmp > file and see if they can read it? Are you supposed to be able to? Mine looks > like text and compiled stuff mixed. > > Thanks again.
that's it... they way it looks that is. What it is, is the file that will become the new updatedb once it's "complete" one gets moved to the other. Wait a sec... had an epiphany...(or gas, not sure) ... doesn't slocate use the sleep cat dbs? aka db1 db2 etc etc. If these are bad maybe that's the problem. A script the other day was submitted that might find out if anything is bad/missing in this area. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/QuikTips is the page I put it into. towards the bottom Maxim took what I had for finding missing files and put it into a script that does things a tad bit nicer and a whole lot faster. Run this against your box tonight let it run while you sleep if it's going to take a while... why not) and see if it spits back anything. Might help... might not.
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