Re: updatedb oddity
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:55:13PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> Ever since I first set up my box updatedb has always run on a
> semi-regular basis and kept the locate db updated. Recently, it appears
> to have stopped doing this. Every 8 days or so when I try to "locate"
> something, I get a warning that the db is 8 or more days old. Is there a
> cron job that should be doing this that I can look at, or is it handled
> via something else? TIA.
Yep, there's a daily cronjob: /etc/cron.daily/find
My locatedb stopped getting updated when I upgraded to woody, because my
fstab had / as type 'auto', but /etc/updatedb.conf put 'auto' in the PRUNEFS
env variable.
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