Re: locate

[DMW <shamrock@mtco.com>]

/etc/cron.daily has these:

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root           51 Apr  7 11:04 logrotate
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          390 Apr  9 18:26 makewhatis.cron
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          291 Apr 19 13:55 slocate.cron
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root           54 Apr  8 12:48 tmpwatch

...

Steven Pritchard wrote:

DMW said:
> After upgrading from RH5.2 to RH6, locate doesn't work.  Typing "locate
> anything" just yields:
>
> locate: decode_db(): open: (2) No such file or directory

Look for something like /etc/cron.daily/updatedb.cron and run it.

Steve
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