> Today I recieved one of those wonderful mails from Anacron > with thre following content: > > /etc/cron.daily/slocate: > updatedb: this is not a valid slocate database: > /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db > > Is it safe to remove /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db ? and create > a new one?
I've deleted the existing file on more than one occasion and it's been recreated the next time slocate runs with no problems. Doing so is probably the easiest attempt at fixing it. If you want to be safe, just rename the existing one so that you can put it back if things get even worse... ;-) Hall
