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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: SimsS@IBM.Net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: weekly run output - strange error
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In-Reply-To: <000501bda1c8$6ff1f160$e7acf9c7@Elvis.RatsNest.VaBeach.Va.Us>; from Steve Sims on Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 08:38:06AM -0400
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On Saturday, 27 June 1998 at  8:38:06 -0400, Steve Sims wrote:
> Can someone tell me why I get the following failure message every time
> rc.weekly runs:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Root [mailto:root@gw.blah.blah.blah]
> Sent: Saturday, June 27, 1998 2:32 AM
> Subject: gw weekly run output
>
>
> Rebuilding locate database:
> updatedb: locate database /tmp/_updatedb10629 is empty
>
> Rebuilding whatis database:
>
> Cleaning up kernel database files:
> ----- end -----
>
> I've poked around a little in the man pages, and I can't even find a
> reference to the tmp file(s) that are trying to be referenced.....
>
> FWIW: I'm running FreeBSD-STABLE and typically CVSUP it every couple of
> days.  This error message has plagued me since the machine was built last
> March; now it's starting to irk me!

It looks to me as if your /var/tmp file system filled up.  It would
seem that under these circumstances there should be an error message
to this effect, but I can't confirm this.  Rebuilding the locate
database takes up a lot of space--I had 30 MB in /var/tmp, and it
wasn't enough.

Greg
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