[rhn-users] "search for files" problem

[Paul A. Kennedy]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 06:46:23AM -0500, L J Dennis wrote:
> Tried to do a file search for the first time.  Received the error
> "Warning: Locate: Warning: '/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than
> 8 days old."  I know that this file needs to be updated in order
> to complete my search but do not know how to do this.  Can't seem
> to find any help on this.  Thanks in advance for your advice.


Hello,

I believe that your question has been mostly answered already, but I decided to
write a little more in case someone searches the archives later.

So, you know that you should be using locate, so that's a start as to where to
look to hunt for more information.

If I do a man on locate on my systems, I get a man page for slocate (but not a
man page for updatedb, the command you you need).  If I do a man -k slocate,
however, I get listings for slocate and updatedb.  This is how you might find
information for the next time.  (Actually, I think that this is a deficiency of
the slocate man page to not mention updatedb.)


Ideally, updatedb should be run as a cron job.  In fact,when I look:

	# grep  updatedb /etc/cron*/*
	/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron:/usr/bin/updatedb -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"


So, I suspect that you may have a larger problem.  Is the partition where the
locate database is located full?

Anyway, hope this helps.

Paul