[KLUG Members] slocate

Eric Beversluis econophil at charter.net
Tue Oct 25 08:34:21 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 07:48 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > 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

/etc/cron.d is an empty directory on my system (ls returns nothing)
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