Re: [SLE] update locate

From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 06/02/04

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    Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 10:53:57 +0200 (CEST)
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    The Wednesday 2004-06-02 at 01:45 -0400, Bob S. wrote:

    > How does one get locate to update itself?
    >
    > ie: I use locate to find a bunch of files I want to delete. I go and
    > delete those files/packages, do another locate, and it still shows the
    > files/packages. A check back to the affected folders shows that it is
    > gone.
    >
    > Somewhat frustrating.

    Why is it frutrating? That's the documented behaviour, it is working
    correctly.

    Run updatedb to update the database. 

    -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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