On Fri, 25 May 2001, ray p wrote: > Thanks for the replies.
I don't understand Noah's point - as I said, I ran 'updatedb' after removing qmail and the only files shown by the 'locate qmail' command were those which were not under /etc/rc*. I have no program which runs update nightly. Today, using Kevin's 'locate -e' does not show the files - as he said would be the case. I've just run 'updatedb' once more and again I'm told the files are still there. Seems illogical and puzzling to me. John. > 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > >