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Subject: Re: Problems with updatedb From: Rick Forrester <rickf@crow.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:11:02 -0700 dominic@cedep.net said: > I had this problem to. Run the script > /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron > instead. I do not know what is up with updatedb. It seems to be > broken on RH6.0 --- it does not work here! With the above script you > will be able to reconstruct your database. Not broken, it's your filtering that's causing the problem. If you look at the commands in slocate.cron, you'll see that there's a "-e" option with a list of directories that follows. It hangs up in empty directories; so they're excluded. You can use the same syntax to ensure that floppy drives and cdrom drives aren't scanned, also. ===