On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > After installing the manpages package again, locate still did not find the
> > man pages that actually did install. Does locate use a cache of some sort?
> > Shouldn't the manpage install be flushing that cache?
>
> Yes. No. There is a cache (/var/lib/locate/locatedb) which is updated
> by updatedb. It's updated by the updatedb program which is called in
> /etc/cron.daily/find.
>
> > This is starting to look more like an installation nit. I will see if it
> > goes away on reboot. (I hate rebooting for no good reason ;-)
>
> Try running updatedb and see if that fixes it.
>
This worked. Thanks! This has been a long standing nit on my system. Would
running updatedb in the background be appropriate for the manpage package?
Thanks for the help,
Dwarf
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