On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:16:26PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > which locate (after updatedb) shows as being present when in actual > fact they are not there. I did not remove them by hand, it was only > when trying to do so that I found this situation. > > Does anyone have any explanation of why this is so? Locate uses a database that is updated nightly on Debian. If those files existed last night, but are gone today, then locate will still show them to you. Most likely they were deleted automatically when you uninstalled the package. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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