On 09/19/2016 02:57 PM, Andy Blanchard wrote:
> On 19 September 2016 at 22:38, Patrick Dupre <pdupre@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I did:
>> systemctl enable mlocate-updatedb.service
>> (no error)
>> but it still does not seem to be enabled:
>> ● mlocate-updatedb.service - Update a database for mlocate
>> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mlocate-updatedb.service; static; vendor preset: disable
>> Active: inactive (dead)
>>
>> Sep 19 23:15:02 teucidide systemd[1]: Stopped Update a database for mlocate.
>> Sep 19 23:15:03 teucidide systemd[1]: Started Update a database for mlocate.
>>
>> systemctl is-enabled mlocate-updatedb.service
>> static
>>
>> Is it OK ?
>
> AFAICT the service only runs the mlocate update once on boot. What
> you need for regular mlocate DB updates is the systemd timer, which
> will run the necessary script at midnight every day by default:
>
> systemctl enable mlocate-updatedb.timer
>
> Note that last bit reads "timer" not "service". You can check if it's
> enabled by running:
>
> systemctl list-timers
>
> and looking for "mlocate-updatedb.timer" in the fifth ("UNIT") column
> - the entry in the first column is when it's next scheduled to run.
Well, lovely. I've found that "systemctl --full list-timers" truncates
the display if your terminal isn't wide enough (at least it truncates
using xfce-terminal) and gives you no indication it has done so. Isn't
"--full" supposed to wrap the display so that doesn't happen? That's
what the man page says it does.
Yet another reason I absolutely deplore this systemd/systemctl crap.
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