General :: Updatedb: Not Always Making Slocate Find All Files?
May 31, 2011Kernel 2.6.21.5, Slackware 12.0
Code:
bash-3.1$ cat /etc/cron.daily/slocate
#!/bin/sh
[code]...
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[code]....
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Code:
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and then to find a file even when external is disconnected
[code]...
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Quote:
find /opt/TimesTen/tt_transaction_log/ -name "mtsDB.log*" -mtime +1 -print
following are log files which are existing, I have to delete one day older files from this location but when use above mentioned command it won't print one day older files, as i understand "-mtime" modified time, "+1" means one day older. am i correct?
Code:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 ablddb dba 268435456 May 30 17:11 mtsDB.log126985
-rw-rw-rw- 1 ablddb dba 268435456 May 30 17:17 mtsDB.log126986
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[code].....
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General :: Find Size Of The Files?
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Code:
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P.S.:
SHELL=bash
OS=RHEL5
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