On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:06 pm, Jeremy C. Reed said:

~ What version of updatedb?
~
~ Try: "updatedb --version"
~
Here is the version:

root@bmike1:/home/knoppix# updatedb --version
GNU updatedb version 4.1.20

I then looked in the snaptic program list to see if I had the current version; 
unfortuately, updatedb was not listed among the files. So the thought came 
that perhaps it just isn't listed ; but:
root@bmike1:/home/knoppix# apt-get install updatedb
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package updatedb
root@bmike1:/home/knoppix#

~ > 	/usr/bin/find: error in /etc/mtab: none: No such file or directory
~
~Do you have an /etc/mtab file?

I looked and here is the mtab

/dev/hda5 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/root.old /initrd ext2 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/proc/bus/usb none usbfs rw 0 0
capifs /dev/capi capifs rw,mode=0666 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat rw 0 0

You know, mtab needs to be updated with sda5 and sda6. From what I've heard it 
is an auto-generated file that people are not supposed to edit. So how do I 
initiate the update process?

~ Maybe try with:
~
~ updatedb --localuser=nobody

~bmike1@bmike1:~$ updatedb --localuser=nobody
/usr/bin/updatedb: line 142: /var/cache/locate/locatedb.n: Permission denied
Password:
su: Authentication failure
updatedb: new database would be empty

root@bmike1:/home/knoppix# updatedb --localuser=nobody
/usr/bin/find: /lost+found: Permission denied
/usr/bin/find: error in /etc/mtab: none: No such file or directory

~ Or:
~
~ su nobody -c updatedb

bmike1@bmike1:~$ su nobody -c updatedb
Password:
su: Authentication failure
Sorry.

root@bmike1:/home/knoppix# su nobody -c updatedb
/usr/bin/find: /lost+found: Permission denied
/usr/bin/find: error in /etc/mtab: none: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/updatedb: line 142: /var/cache/locate/locatedb.n: Permission denied
updatedb: new database would be empty

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<:-)~MIKE~(-:>






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