Re: locate warning . . . ?

[Steve Mayer <tattoo@ipinc.net>]

Bryan,

  The error means that updatedb has not been run through your
cron scripts as it should have.  su to the root account and try
running /etc/cron.daily/find and see if you get any errors.

Steve

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:
> --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/xf86config
> /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xf86config.1x.gz
> 
> --cut--
> 
> Any ideas about what this means?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bryan Walton
> 
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