Re: /etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-30 Thread joost witteveen
> > > I have no > > > program which runs update nightly. > > > > I think you do. see /etc/cron.daily/find > > > Sorry, I didn't know that. Makes the anomaly even more difficult to > understand though Yes. It looks like your updatedb doesn't do what it should do. You could try and remove the file

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-27 Thread john gennard
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Wayne Topa wrote: > Subject: Re: /etc/rc* and locate > Date: Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:20:47PM +0100 > > In reply to:john gennard > > Quoting john gennard([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, ray p wrote: > > > > > > &

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: /etc/rc* and locate Date: Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:20:47PM +0100 In reply to:john gennard Quoting john gennard([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 25 May 2001, ray p wrote: > > > > Thanks for the replies. > > I don't understand Noah's poi

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-26 Thread john gennard
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, us

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-24 Thread ray p
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" <[EMA

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-24 Thread Kevin Dalley
"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 no

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
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

/etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-24 Thread john gennard
I installed qmail and after setup problems, removed it via dselect in favour of a simpler program more suited to my needs. The removal left a large number of files which I have since tried to delete by hand. All went without problem except:- /etc/rc0.d/K20qmail /etc/rc1.d/K20qmail /etc/rc2.d/S20q