deleted files still appear [SOLVED]

kcy29581 · 2005-04-12 02:33:14

Hi all,

I just compared my pacnew files to their equivalents and deleted the pacnew ones. If I go to Gnome and use the "find files" utility it cant find any pacnew files, as expected as I deleted them!

But if I use

locate *.pacnew

all the pacnew files still appear! Why is this?

Thanks

Snowman · 2005-04-12 03:41:52

locate uses a database. Probably it hasn't been updated since you deleted the files. That should be taken care by crond.

kcy29581 · 2005-04-12 03:47:42

so how do I sort this out then?

Snowman · 2005-04-12 04:09:34

You should be OK if you have crond in the DAEMONS array of rc.conf

You can also run :
# updatedb
to update the database.

kcy29581 · 2005-04-12 04:17:33

ok, thanks!

kcy29581 · 2005-04-12 04:46:54

I already had crond in the daemons list... so why doesn't it update the database automatically?

woodstock · 2005-04-12 04:55:50

try this in a terminal:

updatedb -u

might help.

kcy29581 · 2005-04-12 05:04:24

doing that right now. hope it works!

iphitus · 2005-04-12 08:49:35

crond updates it at midnight. so your computer obviously hasnt been on at midnight for a while.

neri · 2005-04-12 09:13:31

iphitus wrote:

crond updates it at midnight. so your computer obviously hasnt been on at midnight for a while.

Yupp, tpowa posted a nice feature request in the bugtracker to work around
that "midnight not running" issue

-neri

Snowman · 2005-04-12 15:07:28

You can also use anacron from my repo. It updates at boot ups (well, 20 min. after). I will add this comment to the bugtracker.

MEfreak · 2005-04-12 17:15:30

At the risk of sounding like an idiot...

is "updatedb -u" equivalent to "locate -u" ? I've used the latter (locate -u) for quite some time.

Snowman · 2005-04-12 17:22:00

MEfreak wrote:

At the risk of sounding like an idiot...
is "updatedb -u" equivalent to "locate -u" ? I've used the latter (locate -u) for quite some time.

updatedb is a link to slocate. (locate is a link too ) By default, updatedb == updatedb -u

woodstock · 2005-04-12 17:32:22

Snowman is correct. I just remember that in my Slackware days I had to use a combination of updatedb and slocate to find .new files and edit them by hand. Much like Arch has the .pacnew or .pacsave files.

MEfreak, don't worry about asking those types of questions, we wont bite your face off. At least I wont.

kcy29581 · 2005-04-12 18:44:37

Thanks for all the help guys, I think I get it now! It would be nice if slocate automatically updated the database once you deleted a file.

How does Windows accomplish this? If you delete a file it immediately no longer registers in a search. Also Gnome's search is a lot better at this as well. Does Gnome use fam to do this?

Spider.007 · 2005-04-12 20:21:21

kcy29581 wrote:

Thanks for all the help guys, I think I get it now! It would be nice if slocate automatically updated the database once you deleted a file.
How does Windows accomplish this? If you delete a file it immediately no longer registers in a search. Also Gnome's search is a lot better at this as well. Does Gnome use fam to do this?

locate is meant to cache for speed reasons.

If you don't want/like that; use `find` and all is well

kcy29581 · 2005-04-12 20:41:49

right, of course. thats another cool idea

phrakture · 2005-04-12 20:43:57

I use find myself... never touch locate, as I don't like keeping the db up to date

kcy29581 · 2005-04-12 20:46:15

I think I might start doing that as well now, phrakture. Too much hassle to worry about right now!

FUBAR · 2005-04-12 20:54:42

find . -name '*.pacnew*'

To find all files in the local dir.

jerem · 2005-04-12 22:08:15

If you use find instead of locate, you dont need to update anything.

find / -name '*.pacnew'

And if you dont want to keep the updates files :

find -name '*.pacnew' -exec rm {} ;

Usually, you only need to look into /etc :

find /etc -name '*.pacnew'

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