Re: Bug#23512: timezones: tzconfig is undocumented
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 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?
It is run out of cron.daily by the findutils package. You don't want it
run during package installation too.
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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