On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 12:06 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 2:56 pm, Anne Wilson 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? > > > > Anne > > Yes updatedb needs to be run as root.
OK - I'll look into changing that. > > Another potential problem is if your computer is switched off when the job > is due to run. Cron will not run jobs whose time has passed. The solution > is to install anacron which will check for missed jobs and run them. > I run 24/7 unless I'm away for a few days. > BTW: a cron job to run updatedb is already part of the cron.weekly job. > So your job should be unneccessary > Which makes it even odder, that it should report as being more than 8 days old, doesn't it? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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