updatedb cron jon

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updatedb cron jon

21 March 2023, 09:41:47

I've recently installed plocate, which ships updatedb command to update database and I want to run it daily. How can I achieve it with cronie? Somewhere on internet I found, that running sudo crontab -e and typing @daily /usr/bin/updatedb would work, but it didn't work for me. So should I put some shell script in /etc/cron.daily? And if so, how should it look?

Re: updatedb cron jon

Reply #1 – 21 March 2023, 10:53:39

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@daily /usr/bin/updatedb

Should work. I suspect you didn't actually create the crontab entry ?
Did you see this ?

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/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/vi: No such file or directory

If so this should work (if nano is installed which I think it is by default?)

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su
EDITOR=nano crontab -e

If you want to do it in cron.daily instead create a file in that directory, make it executable and put this it.

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#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/updatedb

Re: updatedb cron jon

Reply #2 – 21 March 2023, 18:05:19

I did create crontab, but as root, so if I didn't login as root it had no effect? And thanks for answer!

Re: updatedb cron jon

Reply #3 – 21 March 2023, 18:31:03

I'm not fully understanding you. You don't have to be logged in for root (or user) cron jobs to run.
Is it working now ?