On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 9:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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
a possible reason for cron.weekly apparently not doing your updatedb is if another part of the job is failing and causing the remainder to abort. If you enter a line MAILTO=your_email_addy into /etc/crontab then any jobs which fail will cause an email to be sent to you. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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