Re: [newbie] updatedb

2003-12-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 01:45, Lee Wiggers wrote: How do I include specific network shares when I update the locate db? I thought they were automagically included if mounted when I updatedb. Lee Take a look at /etc/updatedb.conf. LX -- °°°

Re: [newbie] updatedb

2003-12-07 Thread Lee Wiggers
On 07 Dec 2003 02:02:22 -0500 Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 01:45, Lee Wiggers wrote: How do I include specific network shares when I update the locate db? I thought they were automagically included if mounted when I updatedb. Lee Take a look at

[newbie] updatedb

2003-12-06 Thread Lee Wiggers
How do I include specific network shares when I update the locate db? I thought they were automagically included if mounted when I updatedb. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 15:19, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Why? I've never had this behavior before out of a Mandrake setup. As root, I can type in updatedb at a shell, and it will run for 2-3 mins, as per usual, then suddenly, monitor goes black, and machine spontaneously reboots. I have an

Re: [newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 02:01 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: * Double check all your system path(s) in the /etc/profile, the .bashrc of your home account, the /etc/ld.so.conf .bashrc looks okay - I have a lot of aliases in there but they are valid. ld.co.conf looks like this: /usr/X11R6/lib

Re: [newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday June 13 2003 09:04 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Now here's an odd one - df and kdisk neither one show a swap? Is there some trick to seeing it? (IIRC it always showed up before) Neither df or any GUI for it will show swap because /swap has no file system. 'fdisk -l' (as root that's a

Re: [newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 01:21 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Neither df or any GUI for it will show swap because /swap has no file system. 'fdisk -l' (as root that's a lower case L), or 'free -m' (as user) will show your swap partition. Sometimes it's useful to clear the swap. As root,

Re: [newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 07:52 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Or : if you are a little concerned about using fdisk ( I am ) you can just ( from a terminal ) type *top*. Then, at the top of the screen swap usage is displayed ( an updated ) every now and then. To get out of *top* just press *q*. HTH

Re: [newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 07:27 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 00:04, Ronald J. Hall wrote: * Check the size of your SWAP Now here's an odd one - df and kdisk neither one show a swap? Is there some trick to seeing it? (IIRC it always showed up before) fdisk -l (fdisk list

[newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Why? I've never had this behavior before out of a Mandrake setup. As root, I can type in updatedb at a shell, and it will run for 2-3 mins, as per usual, then suddenly, monitor goes black, and machine spontaneously reboots. I have an 80 gig HD. and usually...some kind of damage is done. This