On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > 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?
It is run out of cron.daily by the findutils package. You don't want it run during package installation too. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
