locate mystery

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

MR ZenWiz wrote:

>Why would locate not be able to find files or directories within that
>directory. The permissions are 755 and I haved chowned it to my id
>and group users, not root:root.

Can it always not see them or is it not finding ones that you've
added recently? The locate command relies on the plocate database
being up-to-date, which is done with the sudo updatedb command. If
you run that command, can it find them afterwards?

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.