Hi Michael, did you give "dbupdate -v" a try? The verbose-option may display some additional infos... cu, Joe On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 13:24 -0400, Michael Johnson wrote: > On Apr 14, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:27:14AM -0400, Michael Johnson wrote: > >> Hi gang > >> > >> I've discovered one of my RHEL AS3 machines doesn't locate at all. > >> Whenever I run locate, it doesn't return anything regardless of what > >> I search for. > >> > >> I ran slocate -u to try and rebuild the slocate.db file. It took > >> quite a while but it finished. The locate still didn't happen. I > >> even tried to specify the slocate.db in the arguments with -d and it > >> still returned nothing even though the slocate.db file is quite > >> large. > >> > >> What am I missing here? > > > > IMHO, Red Hat got this wrong... Have a look at the cron job that's > > supposed to generate the catalog and you'll see how they screwed it > > up. > > This can't be serious! > > /usr/bin/updatedb -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e "/" > > So basically, run it except for every file system you're going to > ever attach to it (okay so I can understand that a little) and > exclude the root directory. So basically, it's going to do nothing. > > > Edit /etc/updatedb.conf and set DAILY_UPDATE to yes. > > I didn't have a DAILY_UPDATE entry so I added it. Hopefully that's > right for AS3. > > -Michael > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > | Michael Johnson | Sr. Systems Engineer | > | mjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx | CodeRyte | > | +1-301-951-5315 | http://www.coderyte.com/ | > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
