On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 05:57:11AM +0200, Jussi Peltola wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 02:35:54AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > yeah, but wasn't the original issue that started this thread was that > > the locate database was "too old"? maybe if locate, apropos, etc would > > print "databse last updated 3 weeks 2 days ago"? > > This should be done in any case. IMHO it's a bug if they don't complain > loudly, or even refuse to run with a stale database. Stale caches are > evil, even if the man page warns about them.
yeah, but if your computer hasn't been on for 3 weeks and then locate won't work because the database is 3 weeks old, that would suck. -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
