Let me guess: you shut your machine off at night?
locate uses a database that it rebuilds periodically, usually via a process
called from cron. If your machine isn't on at 4am or whenever that process is
scheduled, the database will not be updated. since locate doesn't access the
filesystem directly, over time the database will be increasingly inaccurate.
To fix this, either leave your machine on all the time, and if this doesn't fix
the problem look at your systems crontabs and/or log files for clues as to why;
or
As root, manually run the "updatedb" command. That will take a while, as it
scans all (or most) of your filesystem and rewrites the slocate database.
HTH,
-m
Jonathan Wilson wrote:
>
> Whenever I look for something that locate doesn't think it can find I get the
>following error:
>
> locate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old
>
> What's up with that?
>
> JW
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