Re: /etc/rc* and locate

[joostje@komputilo.org (joost witteveen)]

> > > I have no
> > > program which runs update nightly.
> > 
> > I think you do. see /etc/cron.daily/find
> >
> Sorry, I didn't know that. Makes the anomaly even more difficult to
> understand though

Yes.

It looks like your updatedb doesn't do what it should do.
You could try and remove the file /var/lib/locate/locatedb,
and then run updatedb. Does it re-create the file? If so,
does locate still show the /etc/rc* files?

Does  /etc/updatedb.conf have any funky contents?

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joostje