phantom files

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Thu Sep 11 12:04:18 UTC 2008


Mark Haney wrote:
>     Try re-booting. The locate system is re-loaded in a bootup.
>
> Good grief.  Don't reboot as root run 'updatedb'.
>
> This isn't Windows, you know.

And rebooting wouldn't help at all because updatedb is started by a cron 
job, not at boot time.


Nils




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