Re: locate warning . . . ?
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:44:12PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:01:05PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
> >
> > > There have been several reports of similar problems, most of which
> > > appear to be associated with anacron, an occasional jobs schedular
> > > similar to cron.
> > >
> > > I had the problem myself on two boxes. Apparently one or more of the
> > > scripts in /etc/cron.daily was bugging out when run under anacron --
> > > though I have no clear understanding why this should be, as both anacron
> > > and cron run "run-parts" with the same arguments.
> >
> > I have got the same problem since several days, anacron seems to be
> > the trouble maker here too.
> >
> > Did anyone file a bug report? If not, I would do it, but better if
> > someone has a better understanding of the real problem (and a
> > workaround, maybe).
>
> Neither 'anacron' nor 'findutils' list any current bug reports which
> match this symptom, according to the bug tracking system:
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/
Followup to self:
The problem (hung anacron jobs leading to out-of-date whatis (locate)
database) appears to result on my system from a hung logrotate process.
This happens sporadically, not sure why.
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Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com)
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