>> 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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