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Re: 9.4 Linux: no locate database rebuild?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue May 10 18:04:20 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
Cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200505102159.j4ALxd8x017101@anhedonia.mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:04:07 -0400
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On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 17:59 -0400, Robert A Basch wrote:
> > It might be just my machine (astrophel), but it seems that the locate
> > database is not being rebuilt.
>
> I am seeing this too. It looks like /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron now
> exits without running updatedb unless DAILY_UPDATE is set to "yes" in
> /etc/updatedb.conf. I have not tried changing that config file
> accordingly.
Do people think this feature is important? I've always found it an
annoyance, myself.
