makewhatis / updatedb
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Tue Jun 29 16:37:16 UTC 2004
karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> I have a RHv8.0 system used for hot backups so NFS is active to and from
> an IBM AIX system.
>
> Over the weekend, updatedb (cron.daily/makewhatis) started on Friday,
> Saturday and Sunday, but never finished. I was out of disk space this
> morning and since it's also used as our print server, no one could print
> from our main business system because its spooler went down (another story
> for another time).
makewhatis and updatedb have nothing to do with each other. makewhatis
generates the database for the "man -k" or "appropos" commands, updatedb
generates the database for the "which" and "whereis" commands.
> What can cause updatedb to continue running and not finish? Could it be
> the NFS filesystems? They've been mounted for months with no problems.
It could be. You may have a recursive directory loop or something in
there.
It depends on what changed on the filesystems it's checking. You may
need to use the "-e" option to exclude certain directories or the "-f"
option to exclude filesytem types, e.g.
updatedb -f nfs
to exclude NFS volumes.
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