On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:55:13PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Ever since I first set up my box updatedb has always run on a > semi-regular basis and kept the locate db updated. Recently, it appears > to have stopped doing this. Every 8 days or so when I try to "locate" > something, I get a warning that the db is 8 or more days old. Is there a > cron job that should be doing this that I can look at, or is it handled > via something else? TIA.
Yep, there's a daily cronjob: /etc/cron.daily/find My locatedb stopped getting updated when I upgraded to woody, because my fstab had / as type 'auto', but /etc/updatedb.conf put 'auto' in the PRUNEFS env variable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]