slocate doesn't

[Michael Johnson]

On Apr 14, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:27:14AM -0400, Michael Johnson wrote:
>> Hi gang
>>
>> I've discovered one of my RHEL AS3 machines doesn't locate at all.
>> Whenever I run locate, it doesn't return anything regardless of what
>> I search for.
>>
>> I ran slocate -u to try and rebuild the slocate.db file.  It took
>> quite a while but it finished.  The locate still didn't happen.  I
>> even tried to specify the slocate.db in the arguments with -d and it
>> still returned nothing even though the slocate.db file is quite  
>> large.
>>
>> What am I missing here?
>
> IMHO, Red Hat got this wrong...  Have a look at the cron job that's
> supposed to generate the catalog and you'll see how they screwed it  
> up.

This can't be serious!

/usr/bin/updatedb -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e "/"

So basically, run it except for every file system you're going to  
ever attach to it (okay so I can understand that a little) and  
exclude the root directory.  So basically, it's going to do nothing.

> Edit /etc/updatedb.conf and set DAILY_UPDATE to yes.

I didn't have a DAILY_UPDATE entry so I added it.  Hopefully that's  
right for AS3.

-Michael

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