On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:28:19 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Martin Gregorie  writes:
>> I have a cronjob set up on my Fedora systems to run updatedb every
>> night,
>> but I run it manually with a "sudo updatedb" command on my RPi before
>> running 'apropos' or 'locate' (the latter is a fast file finder).
>
> Note that there is no need for these manual steps on Debian (or
> Raspbian).

I presume that's due to atd?

My RPi has been known to fail to find stuff, particularly with 'locate',
without manually running updatedb, but that could well be because its not
doing a lot at present, and simply hasn't been on long enough for atd to
have kicked in and run the stuff that crond missed while the RPi was
powered off.


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