erikg
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ghost file appears in LOCATE
I have a ghost file that appears on my FreeBSD!
When I do 'locate myfile.pm' the result is something like this:
/usr/local/www/data/myfile
But the thing is, the file is really placed here:
/usr/local/www/data/module
What's going on?
I have tried to remove the directory modules and then to recreate it, but that doesn't help!!
When I do 'locate myfile.pm' the result is something like this:
/usr/local/www/data/myfile
But the thing is, the file is really placed here:
/usr/local/www/data/module
What's going on?
I have tried to remove the directory modules and then to recreate it, but that doesn't help!!
It sounds like your locate database hasn't been rebuilt lately and still contains information that says the file is in /usr/local/www/data. Normally (on my 4.2 STABLE boxes) the locate database would be rebuilt by /etc/periodic/weekly/310.l
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I am sorry to say, that it was not the locate database that was the problem.
OK , erikg , the jlevie's comment gave right information about one of the most common reasons .
Tell how you solve the problem and the question will be finished with refunding your points .
Tell how you solve the problem and the question will be finished with refunding your points .
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We have gone from Free BSD to Linux :-)
Yeah , that's the SOLUTION :))
Joke .
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erikg,
Can you tell us what was the problem so it can be saved for future searches? jlevie's answer was a good answer to a common problem, but you said that wasn't it. Can you post here what was the solution?
majorwoo
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Can you tell us what was the problem so it can be saved for future searches? jlevie's answer was a good answer to a common problem, but you said that wasn't it. Can you post here what was the solution?
majorwoo
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ASKER
We never found out of how to solve the problem, and as we decided to go from FreeBSD to Linux we solved our problem, even though we could not build our knowledge base.
/ Erik
/ Erik
Ahh ok, and you tried jlevie's answer and that didn't work for you right? (If that is the case we might want to take this question out of the PAQ as there is no answer here)
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