On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 12:36, Bill Winegarden wrote: > Hi, > I use slocate regularly to locate various files. I have recently received > warnings that the "slocate database is more than 8 days old". I read through > the documentation and the -u option appears to create a database but my > question is .... can I just run an updatedb command of some sort? > > Thanks, > Bill W.
It's rather strange that updatedb hasn't been run - do you power down your machine or similar overnight, or do you let the machine run all the time? If you let the machine run all the time, it will run as a standard system task once every 24 or so hours...else you can force it by running updatedb as root... Check your cron jobs and make sure it's there as a scheduled task - cuz if not, then something might be wrong... -- Thu Jun 5 13:20:00 EST 2003 13:20:00 up 14:13, 4 users, load average: 0.23, 0.21, 0.13 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * "The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography"
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