Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 08:15, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 23 June 2003 09:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > Yes it can... I had this in var one time on a box. Boot from disk 1 in > > rescue mode and have it mount your partitions... then from it go in and > > delete this dir. This took ca

Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 23 June 2003 09:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Yes it can... I had this in var one time on a box. Boot from disk 1 in > rescue mode and have it mount your partitions... then from it go in and > delete this dir. This took care of this for me. > > James Wonder what the diff is between

Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 23 June 2003 09:21 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Opps forgot one thing It's possible.. that there is a bad sector on > the drive and Mail was/is right on the spot. If this is the case... > leave it... It's a really crude way of denying working files access to a > bad sector. > > Jame

Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 12:23 am, Lorne wrote: > I wonder if you couldn't somehow move it to /dev/nul. I dunno how to do it > though. > > > Thanks. There's a thought - wish I could do all trouble-some things that way! :-) --

Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-23 Thread Lorne
On Monday 23 June 2003 02:34 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > For those of you who were following/helping me with this thread, I've made > some progress - 1 step forward, 2 steps back. > > Kmail has been crashing quite a bit since I upgraded to 9.1, full lockups > requiring hard resets. So...I figured

Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-23 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 18:17, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > For those of you who were following/helping me with this thread, I've made > > some progress - 1 step forward, 2 steps back. > > > > Kmail has been crashing quite a bit since I upgraded

Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-23 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > For those of you who were following/helping me with this thread, I've made > some progress - 1 step forward, 2 steps back. > > Kmail has been crashing quite a bit since I upgraded to 9.1, full lockups > requiring hard resets. So...I figured i

[expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
For those of you who were following/helping me with this thread, I've made some progress - 1 step forward, 2 steps back. Kmail has been crashing quite a bit since I upgraded to 9.1, full lockups requiring hard resets. So...I figured it was probably something in /home/darklord/Mail. I went into

Re: [expert] updatedb prob

2003-06-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 15 June 2003 06:23 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Ok this is now 2 people with problems in this area but I'm not sure if > they are connected... Dark, Does any of this look familiar to you? > > James Nope, I'm not getting that kind of error message. In fact, I get no error message, it j

Re: [expert] updatedb prob

2003-06-15 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 18:15, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 18:09, Brian V Bonini wrote: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su > > Password: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]# updatedb > > /usr/bin/updatedb: line 13: 16857 Broken pipe > > /usr/bin/slocate -c -u -l"$SECURITY" > > A

Re: [expert] updatedb prob

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 15:09, Brian V Bonini wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 12:37, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 10:47, Brian V Bonini wrote: > > > What's going on here? > > > > > > # updatedb > > > /usr/bin/updatedb: line 13: 15907 Broken pipe > > > /usr/bin/slocate -c -u

Re: [expert] updatedb prob

2003-06-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 18:09, Brian V Bonini wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su > Password: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]# updatedb > /usr/bin/updatedb: line 13: 16857 Broken pipe > /usr/bin/slocate -c -u -l"$SECURITY" A thread a while back mentioned that some functions are disabled be

Re: [expert] updatedb prob

2003-06-15 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 12:37, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 10:47, Brian V Bonini wrote: > > What's going on here? > > > > # updatedb > > /usr/bin/updatedb: line 13: 15907 Broken pipe > > /usr/bin/slocate -c -u -l"$SECURITY" > > Not running as root? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] updatedb prob

2003-06-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 10:47, Brian V Bonini wrote: > What's going on here? > > # updatedb > /usr/bin/updatedb: line 13: 15907 Broken pipe > /usr/bin/slocate -c -u -l"$SECURITY" Not running as root? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.

[expert] updatedb prob

2003-06-15 Thread Brian V Bonini
What's going on here? # updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb: line 13: 15907 Broken pipe /usr/bin/slocate -c -u -l"$SECURITY" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] updatedb

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday April 2 2003 06:07 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 > 9.1 > upgrade. Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? Hmmm, I just took a look. 'slocate.cron' is in cron.weekly, and does a 'slocate -c -u'. IIRC, it was also weekly in

Re: [expert] updatedb

2003-04-03 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 16:07, Jack Coates wrote: > the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 > 9.1 upgrade. > Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? moved to weekly /etc/cron.weekly/slocate.cron > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mand

Re: [expert] updatedb

2003-04-02 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, all... > On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:07 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 > 9.1 upgrade. > > Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? > > Under 9.0 it was only done weekly. I manually

Re: [expert] updatedb

2003-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:54, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:07 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 > 9.1 upgrade. > > Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? > > Under 9.0 it was only done weekly. I manually set it to run daily.

Re: [expert] updatedb

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:07 am, Jack Coates wrote: > the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 > 9.1 upgrade. > Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? Under 9.0 it was only done weekly. I manually set it to run daily. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy y

Re: [expert] updatedb

2003-04-02 Thread Lorne
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 05:07 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 > 9.1 upgrade. > Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? Mine is working fine and I went from 9.0 to 9.1, via upgrade. ?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? G

[expert] updatedb

2003-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 > 9.1 upgrade. Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? G

Re: [expert] updatedb and locate problem

1999-07-14 Thread Axalon
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: > Axalon wrote: > > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Bug Hunter wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I looked in the archives for this, but can't find it. I think someone on > > > > > this list bro

Re: [expert] updatedb and locate problem

1999-07-14 Thread Bug Hunter
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: > Axalon wrote: > > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Bug Hunter wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I've installed some updates, and now updatedb hangs when running, and > > > > > locate fails due to a missing database

Re: [expert] updatedb and locate problem

1999-07-14 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Axalon wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Bug Hunter wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I looked in the archives for this, but can't find it. I think someone on > > > > this list brought it up in the past. > > > > > > > > I've installed some updat

Re: [expert] updatedb and locate problem

1999-07-12 Thread Axalon
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Bug Hunter wrote: > > > > > > > > I looked in the archives for this, but can't find it. I think someone on > > > this list brought it up in the past. > > > > > > I've installed some updates, and now updatedb hangs whe

Re: [expert] updatedb and locate problem

1999-07-12 Thread Oden Eriksson
> On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Bug Hunter wrote: > > > > > I looked in the archives for this, but can't find it. I think someone on > > this list brought it up in the past. > > > > I've installed some updates, and now updatedb hangs when running, and > > locate fails due to a missing database. >

Re: [expert] updatedb and locate problem

1999-07-12 Thread Axalon
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Bug Hunter wrote: > > I looked in the archives for this, but can't find it. I think someone on > this list brought it up in the past. > > I've installed some updates, and now updatedb hangs when running, and > locate fails due to a missing database. > > does anyone

[expert] updatedb and locate problem

1999-07-12 Thread Bug Hunter
I looked in the archives for this, but can't find it. I think someone on this list brought it up in the past. I've installed some updates, and now updatedb hangs when running, and locate fails due to a missing database. does anyone remember what fixes this? bug