Re: anacron/cron

[Patrick Dupre]

OK, Thank.

It was inactive, Then I restart it and now:
● mlocate-updatedb.service - Update a database for mlocate
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mlocate-updatedb.service; static; vendor preset: disable
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2016-09-19 23:15:03 CEST; 1min 17s ago
 Main PID: 1357 (mlocate-run-upd)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 512)
   CGroup: /system.slice/mlocate-updatedb.service
           ├─1357 /bin/sh /usr/libexec/mlocate-run-updatedb
           └─1377 /usr/bin/updatedb -f sysfs ramfs bdev proc cpuset cgroup cgroup2 tmpfs devtmpfs c

Sep 19 23:15:02 teucidide systemd[1]: Stopped Update a database for mlocate.
Sep 19 23:15:03 teucidide systemd[1]: Started Update a database for mlocate.

I guess that I need to enable it

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> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 at 10:29 PM
> From: stan 
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: anacron/cron
>
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 22:04:21 +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 ?
>
> $ systemctl status mlocate-updatedb.service
> ● mlocate-updatedb.service - Update a database for mlocate
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mlocate-updatedb.service;
> static; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Mon
> 2016-09-19 09:14:14 MST; 4h 7min ago Process: 1046
> ExecStart=/usr/libexec/mlocate-run-updatedb (code=exited,
> status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1046 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>
> This looks like it runs at start, and that's it.  You could try running
> systemctl restart mlocate-updatedb.service
> and see if that updates your database.
>
> The man pages for updatedb.conf and updatedb seem to suggest that it is
> possible to run updatedb from the command line, and to create your own
> local version of updatedb as a user.
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