On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 8:02 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: > >> 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.
I'm running updatedb - is this not right? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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