you can run updatedb manually also
On 11/28/2010 04:27 PM, Scott Garman wrote: > On 11/28/2010 04:12 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> This is weird: >> >> [r...@devil8 jjj]# locate nvidia.ko >> /lib/modules/2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko >> >> [r...@devil8 jjj]# >> rm /lib/modules/2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko >> rm: cannot remove >> `/lib/modules/2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko': >> No such file or directory >> >> [r...@devil8 jjj]# find nvidia.ko >> find: `nvidia.ko': No such file or directory >> >> Nautilus doesn't see the file either. Does locate just make things up? > On most Linux systems I've worked with, the locate database is only > updated every so often (usually nightly, but sometimes weekly). Check > your cron jobs to see how often the "updatedb" command is run. > > Scott > -- frank hunt (L0F) R0B-ZAR1 befuddled linux admin erstwhile photographer hillsboro oregon _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
