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Re: 9.4 Linux: no locate database rebuild?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed May 11 12:37:02 2005
Message-Id: <200505111636.j4BGaop9022417@dit.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 May 2005 18:04:07 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:36:50 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>> > 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.
Well, to me it's pretty useful- especially since I store lots of things locally
that I need to find again.
I'm wondering why you find it annoying?
Alex
