Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Michael Havens wrote:
> 
> 
>>	knoppix@bmike1:~$ sudo updatedb
> 
> 
> What version of updatedb?
> 
> Try: "updatedb --version"
> 
> 
>>	/usr/bin/find: error in /etc/mtab: none: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> Do you have an /etc/mtab file?
> 
> By default, updatedb doesn't include network filesystems in its locate
> database.
> 
> updatedb usually uses find with the -fstype switch.
> 
> Also try running updatedb as a non-root user (because updatedb has
> different functionality when root).
> 
> Maybe try with:
> 
> updatedb --localuser=nobody
> 
> Or:
> 
> su nobody -c updatedb

RH uses anacron to run updatedb once a day to keep the locate database up to date.