Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 8:46 am, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database

Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 10:33 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I'm running updatedb - is this not right? What are you trying to update? RPM or the locate command DB? From the man page of updatedb: updatedb - update the slocate database The slocate DB is not the same. They have entirely 2

Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 12:06 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 2:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate:

Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 9:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 12:06 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 2:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it

Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 6:37 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 9:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 12:06 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 2:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database

Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old How can I find what went

[newbie] Update database

2003-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old How can I find what went wrong? Could it be

RE: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old How can I find what went wrong? Could it

Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 8:02 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more

RE: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I'm running updatedb - is this not right? What are you trying to update? RPM or the locate command DB? From the man page of updatedb: updatedb - update the slocate database The slocate DB is not the same. They have entirely 2 different jobs and functions. locate uses the DB created by