On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 10:33 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: > >> I'm running updatedb - is this not right? > > What are you trying to update? > RPM or the locate command DB? > > From the man page of updatedb: > updatedb - update the slocate database > The slocate DB is not the same. They have entirely 2 different jobs and > functions. "locate" uses the DB created by updatedb, which is just a small > DB of all files on the entire system at the time "updatedb" was ran. > "rpm --rebuilddb" rebuilds the DB for the RPM's that are installed and > everything that is included in rpm files. > OK. The original message came in response to a slocate enquiry. I'm trying to update the locate database, then, in this case. Perhaps I should also update the rpm database daily, too, but that's a separate issue.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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