>> I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the
>> database every
>> night.  Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run,
>> but today I
>> have seen
>>
>> slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more
>> than 8 days
>> old
>>
>> How can I find what went wrong?  Could it be that I have set it
>> as a user and
>> it needs to be root?

This is to update "locate"'s database, not the RPM database.
Do you know this?
To update RPM's database run "rpm --rebuilddb", "rpm --initdb" to create a
new database.
Just making sure you know which one your updating.
Rob


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