cron daily runs updatedb twice
Bug #197170 reported by
Jürgen Kreileder
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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mlocate (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: mlocate
ii findutils 4.2.32-1ubuntu utilities for finding files--find, xargs
ii mlocate 0.18-2 quickly find files on the filesystem based o
Looks like cron.daily runs updatedb twice when mlocate and findutils are installed. (findutils pulled in through ubuntu-minimal)
Once from /etc/cron.
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It's actually a bit worse than that. On my system daily/find calls updatedb without ensuring
/etc/cron.
that it exists, either by shipping the program, or
depending on a package that does.
I see that the source package contains a different
cronjob. Perhaps there is a problem installing that.
Jeurgen, I suspect that this isn't a fresh hardy alpha
5 install, is that correct?
Thanks,
James