cron/anacron

[Derek Broughton]

Frank McCormick wrote:

> On Thu, 11 May 2006 11:07:07 -0300
> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Frank McCormick wrote:
>> 
>> >> 
>> >   Only one more question: what are the files in
>> >   /var/spool/cron/crontabs used for ??? Are they the jobs for
>> >   individual users?
>> 
... 
>    No the job is assigned to root, but apparently never runs because it
>    seems whenever I use the db by looking for a file the system says
>    warning the db is **whatever** days old. Apparently the only time it
>    gets updated is when I run sudo updatedb.

That's not the usual place for updatedb - as Alan also said it's run out
of /etc/cron.daily when you install slocate.  Are you perhaps not using
slocate but the original GNU locate?
-- 
derek