slocate doesn't

[Andrew Bacchi]

I would expect that "slocate -u" and "updatedb" to be one and the same, 
but give the "updatedb" command a try and see if that solves it.

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?
>
> -Michael
>
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Andrew Bacchi
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