Re: locate warning . . . ?

2000-03-30 Thread kmself
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:44:12PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:01:05PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: There have been several reports of similar problems, most of which appear to be associated with anacron, an occasional

Re: locate warning . . . ?

2000-03-29 Thread kmself
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:01:05PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: There have been several reports of similar problems, most of which appear to be associated with anacron, an occasional jobs schedular similar to cron. I had the problem myself on two

Re: locate warning . . . ?

2000-03-28 Thread Bart Friederichs
locate: warning: database `/var/lib/locate/locatedb' is more than 8 days old Any ideas about what this means? It means what it says, the database is more than 8 days old. When you do 'updatedb' it indexes your filesystems and puts that info in /var/lib/locate/locatedb' to speed up the search

Re: locate warning . . . ?

2000-03-28 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 03:10:35PM -0600, Bryan Walton wrote: Greetings, Today, I have noticed that when I do a locate on something, I get a warning message that locatedb is more than 8 days old. See the example: Any ideas about what this means? The program updatedb needs to run

Re: locate warning . . . ?

2000-03-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: locate warning . . . ? Date: Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 03:10:35PM -0600 In reply to:Bryan Walton Quoting Bryan Walton([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | Greetings, | Today, I have noticed that when I do a locate on something, I get | a warning message that locatedb is more than 8

Re: locate warning . . . ?

2000-03-28 Thread kmself
, I have noticed that when I do a locate on something, I get a warning message that locatedb is more than 8 days old. See the example: --cut-- work:/home/walton# locate xf86config locate: warning: database `/var/lib/locate/locatedb' is more than 8 days old /usr/share/alien/patches

Re: locate warning . . . ?

2000-03-28 Thread Steve Mayer
on something, I get a warning message that locatedb is more than 8 days old. See the example: --cut-- work:/home/walton# locate xf86config locate: warning: database `/var/lib/locate/locatedb' is more than 8 days old /usr/share/alien/patches/xf86config-glibc_1.0.0.i386-3.diff.gz /usr/X11R6/bin

Re: locate warning . . . ?

2000-03-28 Thread Kevin Dalley
: Greetings, Today, I have noticed that when I do a locate on something, I get a warning message that locatedb is more than 8 days old. See the example: --cut-- work:/home/walton# locate xf86config locate: warning: database `/var/lib/locate/locatedb' is more than 8 days old /usr/share/alien

Re: locate warning . . . ?

2000-03-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: There have been several reports of similar problems, most of which appear to be associated with anacron, an occasional jobs schedular similar to cron. I had the problem myself on two boxes. Apparently one or more of the scripts in /etc/cron.daily was bugging

locate warning . . . ?

2000-03-27 Thread Bryan Walton
Greetings, Today, I have noticed that when I do a locate on something, I get a warning message that locatedb is more than 8 days old. See the example: --cut-- work:/home/walton# locate xf86config locate: warning: database `/var/lib/locate/locatedb' is more than 8 days old /usr/share