[arch-general] findutils and locate

[Martti Kühne]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 05:51:36PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote:
> Hi ..
> 
> Yes it is there  ..
> 
> -rw-r-----  1 root locate 7868436 Apr 15 13:48 mlocate.db 
> 
> Doing a strings on the file  it contains the expected data but  i still
> get no files show up when i try locate filename  even if the file is
> listed in the db  and it Actually exists on the drive and is good 
> 

is the data up to date after updatedb?

Actually, no it's not.

the header of mlocate.db is tested on configuration changes, described in [1].
Likely, configuration has changed with a recent update, so your problem would
possibly have been fixed right after you looked into "man mlocate.db"

I am just confused to find you never having had this problem before...?

cheers!
mar77i

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/5/mlocate.db