DB2 is IBMs relational data base manager.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacqueline Michell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "newbie list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 4:41 PM
Subject: [newbie] More on DB2 and slocate (cron daily problem)
> Thanks to Meph and others who replied to my original question. I've
looked
> a little further and can give some more details, so I am going to send
this
> again. Does anyone know what DB2 refers to????? All I want to do is _get
> rid_ of the following daily message:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anacron)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily'
> DB2 problem...: Missing or empty key value specified
> slocate: this is not a valid slocate database:
> /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
> --------------------------
> slocate.db is a list of *.dll (obviously Windows files) Why?????
> Another file (/usr/bin/slocate.cron) is as follows:
> "udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usvdevfs" -e
> "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"
> --------------------------
> The following files (/var/spool/cron/ directory) consist of numbers that
> don't seem to follow the date and time format:
> cron.daily -- 20010131
> cron.weekly -- 20010127
> cron.monthly -- 20010127
> --------------------------
> I have also found, via the kcron utility (/usr/bin/kcron), that I have no
> crontab files for root, bin, daemon, adm, lp, sync, shutdown, halt, mail,
> news, uucp, operator, games, named,sympa, gopher, ftp, nobody, xfs, htdig,
> postfix, gdm, and my two non-root users. Kcron looks like the way to
> make/edit these files after I find documentation.
> --------------------------
> /var/log/cron/info shows that my cron jobs are mostly logging the
start/stop
> of the process, updating the time-stamps, and the command:
/sbin/rmmod -as.
> --------------------------
>
> At this point, I just want to get rid of the DB2 message! Thanks a lot
....
> to anyone who can point to a solution.
>
> Jacqueline Michell
>
>
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