Re: updatedb

2024-02-10 Thread Javier Perez
I learned something today 😀 On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 12:14 PM José Matos wrote: > On Sat, 2024-02-10 at 10:09 -0500, David King wrote: > > At some point in the past mlocate must > > have been upgraded/replaced by plocate on my system. I'm not sure > > when that happened. The last time I looked,

Re: updatedb

2024-02-10 Thread José Matos
On Sat, 2024-02-10 at 10:09 -0500, David King wrote: > At some point in the past mlocate must > have been upgraded/replaced by plocate on my system.  I'm not sure > when that happened.  The last time I looked, a long time ago, I was > using mlocate and now it's plocate. > > -- > David King I thi

Re: updatedb

2024-02-10 Thread David King
On 2/10/24 07:52, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: Sorry, It is in /usr/sbin/updatedb Hello, what replace? /usr/bin/updatedb I'm not sure I understand what you are asking.  Nothing replaced that file.  Doing "sudo dnf whatprovides /usr/sbin/updatedb" on Fedora 39 shows that this file is part

Re: updatedb

2024-02-10 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
Sorry, It is in /usr/sbin/updatedb > > > Hello, > > what replace? > > /usr/bin/updatedb > > Thanks > > === > Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com > =

Re: updatedb

2022-08-10 Thread Barry
> On 10 Aug 2022, at 06:29, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-08-10 at 13:57 +0930, Tim via users wrote: >>> On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 08:00 -0700, stan via users wrote: >>> RandomizedDelaySec=30m >> >> Just as an aside: I hate variable names like that. What does "sec" >> mean? Secon

Re: updatedb

2022-08-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2022-08-10 at 13:57 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 08:00 -0700, stan via users wrote: > > RandomizedDelaySec=30m > > Just as an aside:  I hate variable names like that.  What does "sec" > mean?  Seconds?  Security?  Something else? > > They didn't bother to abbreviate

Re: updatedb

2022-08-09 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 08:00 -0700, stan via users wrote: > RandomizedDelaySec=30m Just as an aside: I hate variable names like that. What does "sec" mean? Seconds? Security? Something else? They didn't bother to abbreviate the other words, so you can tell what they mean without having to rea

Re: updatedb

2022-08-09 Thread Doug Herr
On Tue, Aug 9, 2022, at 12:44 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:09:27 -0400 > Charles Dennett wrote: > >> On my F36 system there is mlocate-updatedb rather than >> plocate-updatedb. > > Maybe you did an upgrade from f35 instead of a clean install? > plocate is the new default in f36.

Re: updatedb

2022-08-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:09:27 -0400 Charles Dennett wrote: > On my F36 system there is mlocate-updatedb rather than > plocate-updatedb. Maybe you did an upgrade from f35 instead of a clean install? plocate is the new default in f36. ___ users mailing lis

Re: updatedb

2022-08-09 Thread Charles Dennett
On 8/9/22 09:56, Patrick Dupre wrote: Every thing seems OK -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Aug 9 13:01 /var/lib/systemd/timers/stamp-plocate-upd atedb.timer systemctl list-unit-files | grep updatedb plocate-updatedb.service static

Re: updatedb

2022-08-09 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 07:52:14 -0700 stan wrote: > On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:31:43 +0200 > Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > [Timer] > > OnCalendar=daily > > This means that it only runs once a day. You could change that to > something like (not checked) > OnCalendar=4h > and it should run every 4 hours.

Re: updatedb

2022-08-09 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:31:43 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > [Timer] > OnCalendar=daily This means that it only runs once a day. You could change that to something like (not checked) OnCalendar=4h and it should run every 4 hours. ___ users mailing list --

Re: updatedb

2022-08-09 Thread Patrick Dupre
enabled enabled BUT? > Subject: Re: updatedb > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:31:43 +0200 > Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > This what I have in > > /usr/lib/systemd/system/plocate-updatedb.timer > > Looks just like mine.

Re: updatedb

2022-08-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:31:43 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > This what I have in > /usr/lib/systemd/system/plocate-updatedb.timer Looks just like mine. Unless the timer (or the service it runs) is disabled, it should be running. It touches a "stamp" file every time it runs: /var/lib/systemd/timers/s

Re: updatedb

2022-08-09 Thread Patrick Dupre
=== > Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2022 at 3:23 PM > From: "Tom Horsley" > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: updatedb > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:13:23 +0200 > Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > updatedb is not run periodi

Re: updatedb

2022-08-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:13:23 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > updatedb is not run periodically. > > What should I do to have it run? > cron ? On my system it was automagically set up to run via: /usr/lib/systemd/system/plocate-updatedb.timer (and was very annoying because it always ran at the most

Re: updatedb/locate in F35

2021-12-10 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
On 11/12/2021 08.13, Roger Wells wrote: In F34 the command locate *.xyz finds all expected files after updating from F34->F35 it seems to only report the ones located from $PWD on down. It is likely that the pattern has a match in $PWD so the 'locate' gets the full filename. Probably you ne

Re: updatedb

2017-10-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/30/17 19:56, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > On 30/10/17 22:32, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> Hello, >> >> updatedb does not run periodically. >> Where should I initiate it (cron ?). > > I was wondering the same question earlier today when 'locate' failed to show > a file > I knew exists. > > I noticed t

Re: updatedb

2017-10-30 Thread Patrick Dupre
> Subject: Re: updatedb > > On 30/10/17 22:32, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > > > updatedb does not run periodically. > > Where should I initiate it (cron ?). > > I was wondering the same question earlier today when 'locate' failed to sh

Re: updatedb

2017-10-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/30/17 19:32, Patrick Dupre wrote: > updatedb does not run periodically. > Where should I initiate it (cron ?). systemctl enable mlocate-updatedb.timer systemctl start mlocate-updatedb.timer -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly signature.asc Description: OpenP

Re: updatedb

2017-10-30 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
On 30/10/17 22:32, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, updatedb does not run periodically. Where should I initiate it (cron ?). I was wondering the same question earlier today when 'locate' failed to show a file I knew exists. I noticed that there is a related service: $ sudo systemctl status mloca