slocate doesn't

[Joe Ventker]

Hi Michael,

did you give "dbupdate -v" a try? The verbose-option may display some
additional infos...

cu,
Joe

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 13:24 -0400, Michael Johnson wrote:
> 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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