On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 4:25 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 12:36, Bill Winegarden wrote: > > Hi, > > I use slocate regularly to locate various files. I have recently > > received warnings that the "slocate database is more than 8 days old". I > > read through the documentation and the -u option appears to create a > > database but my question is .... can I just run an updatedb command of > > some sort? > > > > Thanks, > > Bill W. > > It's rather strange that updatedb hasn't been run - do you power down > your machine or similar overnight, or do you let the machine run all the > time? If you let the machine run all the time, it will run as a standard > system task once every 24 or so hours...else you can force it by running > updatedb as root... > > Check your cron jobs and make sure it's there as a scheduled task - cuz > if not, then something might be wrong...
The update is not being run because he does not have anacron installed. In a root terminal 'urpmi anacron' Then even if he powers off his machine at night his cron jobs will still get run in the morning. Come on Stephen you must remember that! derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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