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Started by Prog, May 19 2008 11:12 AM

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Posted 19 May 2008 - 11:12 AM

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When I use the command locate I often get an out of date db error. I then have to run updatedb which takes a long time. Is there anyway to automate the process?

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Posted 09 June 2008 - 08:15 AM

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I found an option that I set to "1" in the updatedb shell file. It was in /etc/cron.daily/
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