[KLUG Members] slocate

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Tue Oct 25 07:48:20 EDT 2005


> I'm exploring slocate and note that I get a warning, "warning: slocate:
> warning:  database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days
> old."
> The man page gives a command to create the db but no info on when or how
> it gets updated. Apparently this does happen as the db exists (I didn't
> create it) and seems reasonably up-to-date.  What is determining when
> and how it gets updated?

Cron, most likely.  Look beneath /etc/cron.d



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