On Thursday 13 September 2001 06:31 am, Ian Marchak spoke thus unto
Caesar's assembled legions:
<snip>
>
> locate uses a database it rebuilds, usually from a cron job. You can
> find the script called by the cron job and add to the directories
> that are excluded from the database when it's built. Cannot remember
> where this is in SuSE, but Caldera keeps it in /etc/cron.d/lib/,
> called 'updatedb' or something like that.
>
> HTH
Bingo!
A script aaa_base_updatedb in /etc/cron.daily. I must have had the
partition mounted when the cron process kicked in.
Thanks very much!
--
Tony Alfrey
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"I'd rather be sailing"
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