[KLUG Members] slocate

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > > 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)

Maybe there is a /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly, etc... ?
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