phantom files

[Mark Haney]

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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Karl Larsen
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 7:23 AM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: phantom files

Robert Holtzman wrote:
> I recently installed logwatch which in turn installed postfix. Later I

> decided to uninstall them using "apt-get purge" and "apt-get
autoremove". 
> Afterward I ran "locate logwatch" and "locate postfix" and a ton of
files 
> showed up, mostly /usr/share/man/man8/ files, /var/lib/dpkg/info/
files, 
> with some /usr/lib/ files and some /etc/rc0.d....../etc/rc6.d files
thrown 
> in. There was other misc. stuff which I won't bother to list. When I 
> tried to delete them I got the "No such file or directory" notice.
> Places->Search for Files showed only the .deb packages in the 
> /var/cache/apt/archives directory. Reindexing with Tracker and
rebooting 
> changed nothing. The phantom files still showed up with "locate".
>
> Anyone have an explanation?
>
> Thanks.
>
>   
    Try re-booting. The locate system is re-loaded in a bootup.

Karl


Good grief.  Don't reboot as root run 'updatedb'.

This isn't Windows, you know.


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