On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:28:15PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:04:21PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> The point is that I am not sure that mlocate (or updatedb) runs properly
> because locate does not find my new files !
>
> How can I be sure that mlocate runs properly ?
>
..
As to locate not finding new files, two possibilities
even if things are running properly.
The db is only automatically updated daily. So if you
create a file and try to locate it before the auto-update,
it will not find it.
The other possibility is a permissions situation. mlocate
will not show you the names of files you are not allowed
to access. So if you create new files as a different
user, or under a permission protected directory, mlocate
will not show them to you.
Thought of a 3rd possibility, updatedb consults a config
file, /etc/updatedb.conf. It specifies lots of things
that updatedb is to skip. Certain directories, filename
extensions, and filesystem types.
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Jon H. LaBadie jonfu(a)jgcomp.com