Re: /etc/rc* and locate
"locate -e" limits your output to files in the database which still
exist.
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@morgul.net> writes:
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:16:26PM +0100, john gennard wrote:
> > which locate (after updatedb) shows as being present when in actual
> > fact they are not there. I did not remove them by hand, it was only
> > when trying to do so that I found this situation.
> >
> > Does anyone have any explanation of why this is so?
>
> Locate uses a database that is updated nightly on Debian. If those
> files existed last night, but are gone today, then locate will still
> show them to you. Most likely they were deleted automatically when you
> uninstalled the package.
>
> noah
>
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