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 /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is > > more than 8 days old > > > > How can I find what went wrong? Could it be that I have > > set it as a user and it needs to be root? > > > > Anne > > due to complaints that vigorous disk activity was occurring > when a system was first booted up (anacron running jobs that > were missed because the system was turned off), anacron was > not installed by default as of 9.0. install it and it'll > begin working. > > urpmi anacron > > Anacron can be used to execute commands periodically, with a > frequency specified in days. Unlike cron(8), it does not > assume that the machine is running continuously. Hence, it > can be used on machines that aren't running 24 hours a day, > to control daily, weekly, and monthly jobs that are usually > controlled by cron.
Thanks, Alan, but the puzzle is that I *do* run 24/7. I can't see why it should have been more than 8 days since it updated. There was one night with a long power cut when the machine was down, but that's a one-off, and in any case I think it was over a week ago. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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