On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 22:36, 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.

su to root and run updatedb &.

I think the cron scripts were changed from previous releases because
peeps where complaining that their systems were bogged down constantly
during times of user activity.  Probably because a lot of night owls use
Mandrake.

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