Re:Re: locate

[Larry Grover <grover marshall edu>]

You can manualyy update the locate database at any time by running the 
command "updatedb" (as root).

A standard RH install sets up a cron job to update the locate database 
every day (at some time early in the morning).  If your computer is 
never on early in the morning, you can edit the crontab to that the 
database gets updated at a time when your computer is usually going to 
be on (see the manpage for crontab).  

Another option is to use anacron instead of cron.  Anacron was designed 
for machines, like laptops, which are not up 24/7.

-- 
Larry Grover, PhD
Assoc Prof of Physiology
Marshall Univ Sch of Med



On Friday 30 March 2001 07:29, Luis Martínez wrote:
> OK, It´s there. But I think it´s not running because the time
> assigned to that proccess could be when this machine is powered off.
> Could I change that?
> Or maybe the problem to locate new soft could be anything different.
> No it´s not rpm -q soft_pack.
>
> thanks again,
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