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[mesc]

I installed the findutils-4.*.rpm but I still don't have updatedb.I even
tried removing /usr/bin/updatedb too,with the same results.Any other ideas ?
:)

            Gary Martin


Vincent wrote:

> mesc wrote:
> >
> > While attempting to add updatedb to crontab I took the advice of the
> > book redhat unleashed and  entered this command.........crontab -l
> > >/usr/bin/updatedb.....that just overwrote my updatedb file with my
> > core.find file .......* 14 * * * find / -name "core*" -exec ls {}
> > \;.....I've looked for updatedb in the rpm section  of my cd and it
> > doesn't appear to be there.Is there anything I can do to get updatedb up
> > and running again?
> >
> >                     Thank you,Gary Martin
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> updatedb is part of findutils-4.*.rpm
>
> btw,
> crontab -l      this shows the current crontab entries
>
> >/path/file     this redirects command output to a file
>                 (in this example), overwriting the file
>
> >>              same redirect, but it appends data
>
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