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 ?
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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.