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. --LX -- ������������������������������������������������ Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ������������������������������������������������
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