[Wlug] locate and updatedb

Frank Sweetser wrote:

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So now, I am at a loss as to why locate could not find /etc/rc.d/boot.local

The locate command looks at the database that updatedb generates nightly out of a cron job. The user that updatedb runs as probably doesn't have permission to list the contents of the /etc/init.d/ directory.

Made sense to me then, like a fool, I tried running updatedb as root and then, in belt-and-suspenders mode, I tried updatedb --localuser=root but still got only the boot.local in /etc/init.d :-( I guess this is why you let sleeping dougs lie doug