updatedb doesn't update

[Jonesy]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:55:39 -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> man updatedb says "updatedb is usually run daily by cron(8) to update
> the default database". But the updatedb on my ubuntu seems not
> updating at all.

If you power down your system daily, and it is off at the time `cron` 
would run the job for `updatedb`, it doesn't get updated ---
 
UNLESS, you have `anacron` installed.  `anacron` will run jobs that 
should have run back at time xx:xx but were not because the system was 
powered down.

HTH
Jonesy
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