updatedb fails on F7....

Globe Trotter itsme_410 at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 30 19:25:04 UTC 2007


H Doncho,
 
> How much time does it take it to give this message? Generally speaking you

Thanks, very much! it gives the error immediately.

> should call /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron, which will tell updatedb what
> not to index (ex: /dev, /proc, /sys, /selinux, /tmp...). Maybe one of
> these pseudo filesystems is causing the problem, try mlocate.cron?

i had never heard of mlocate.cron. so i tried /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron and
this seems to have done the trick. 

thanks,
trotter


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