Re: Bug#23512: timezones: tzconfig is undocumented

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > After installing the manpages package again, locate still did not find the
> > man pages that actually did install. Does locate use a cache of some sort?
> > Shouldn't the manpage install be flushing that cache?
> 
> Yes. No. There is a cache (/var/lib/locate/locatedb) which is updated
> by updatedb. It's updated by the updatedb program which is called in
> /etc/cron.daily/find.
> 
> > This is starting to look more like an installation nit. I will see if it
> > goes away on reboot. (I hate rebooting for no good reason ;-)
> 
> Try running updatedb and see if that fixes it.
> 
This worked. Thanks! This has been a long standing nit on my system. Would
running updatedb in the background be appropriate for the manpage package?

Thanks for the help,

Dwarf
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