And of course updatedb will rebuild the database which depending on your system may be a short time or a *very* long time. On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:30:35PM -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote: > "locate -e" limits your output to files in the database which still > exist. > > > "Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@morgul.net> writes: > > > 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 > > > > -- > Kevin Dalley > SETI Institute > kevin@seti.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- BOFH excuse #159: Stubborn processes
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