[lug] slocate.db.stf

Ben bluey at iguanaworks.net
Sat Dec 30 09:58:13 MST 2006


Thanks for all the help with my slocate.db.stf error message. As I test,
I moved cron.daily to run at a different time and it ran without errors.
So, I moved it from 6:25am to 5:25am (edit crontab, restart cron). The
cron ran at 5:25am without any errors and made a log in my syslog. But
at 6:25am I get the same error message:

Subject: Cron <root at agnew> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts
--report /etc/cron.daily

/etc/cron.daily/slocate:
updatedb: fatal error: The temp file '/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db.stf'
already exists and does not appear to be a valid slocate database.
Please remove before creating the database.

I looked through syslog and nothing happened at 6:25am. So what is
causing cron.daily to run at 6:25am and is it coincidence that that is
the same time I *was* running cron.daily? And why doesn't it log
running?

Thanks,

Ben






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