Topic: messages to admin after upgrade

[Anonymous]

I am getting this message every day after upgrading from 5.1 to 5.5
Anyone know what it is?

From: : root@foo.com (Cron Daemon)
Date: Sun Feb 22, 2004  4:02:22  AM Canada/Eastern
To: root@foo.com
Subject: Cron <root@esmith> run-parts /etc/cron.daily

/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron:

updatedb: invalid option -f
Usage: updatedb [--localpaths='dir1 dir2...'] [--netpaths='dir1 dir2...']
       [--prunepaths='dir1 dir2...'] [--output=dbfile] [--netuser=user]
       [--old-format] [--version] [--help]

[cjensen]

Looks like you have an entry running in cron.daily updating the db 'updatedb' with an -f option.  I do not know specifically if there is a difference in the versions of this from 5.1 to 5.5, but that is what it appears.

slocate.cron is an entry which keeps your db up-to-date daily so when you use 'locate/slocate' the db includes all recent entries.

I would check your version of slocate:
rpm -q slocate

On my 5.6 boxes it is version slocate-2.6-1

It may be that you need to update this package because on slocate-2.6-1 locatedb -f is a valid command.

Craig

[webweave]

I just got a chance to get back into the box. It has been running fine except for the daily message. I found that there is no slocate, rpm or otherwise. should I download and install it?