On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 05:51:36PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > Hi .. > > Yes it is there .. > > -rw-r----- 1 root locate 7868436 Apr 15 13:48 mlocate.db > > Doing a strings on the file it contains the expected data but i still > get no files show up when i try locate filename even if the file is > listed in the db and it Actually exists on the drive and is good > is the data up to date after updatedb? Actually, no it's not. the header of mlocate.db is tested on configuration changes, described in [1]. Likely, configuration has changed with a recent update, so your problem would possibly have been fixed right after you looked into "man mlocate.db" I am just confused to find you never having had this problem before...? cheers! mar77i [1] http://linux.die.net/man/5/mlocate.db
