Mlocate-updatedb.timer Not Working?

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I set this computer up with CentOS 8 a few days ago.

“systemctl status mlocate-updatedb.timer” says “Active (waiting)”.

But the mlocate database hasn’t been updated since the last time I ran updatedb manually.

# ls -l /var/lib/mlocate/*
-rw-r—–. 1 root slocate 22944208 Feb 29 10:30 /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db

What have I missed?

2 thoughts on - Mlocate-updatedb.timer Not Working?

  • Just to follow this up, the mlocate database update started working automatically again by magic. I didn’t change anything but it’s now updating itself daily as expected.

  • Just going through my mail messages, and as a quick reply, if you run
    ‘systemctl list-timers’ it will show you when the timer last ran and when it is next due to run.

    No idea as to why yours seemed to stop then start.

    John.