[CentOS] OFF Topic: mysql installation problem
Jeff Larsen
jlar310 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 03:18:53 UTC 2008
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
> Ed Morrison wrote:
> > This is interesting:
> >
> > Locate shows this:
> >
> > [root at ftp ~]# locate mysql | less
> > <snip>
> >
> >
>
> > But listing the directories will not show the same files:
> >
> > [root at ftp ~]# ls -al /var/lib/mysql/mysql
> > total 8
> > drwx------ 2 mysql mysql 4096 Feb 14 11:44 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 mysql mysql 4096 Dec 24 13:13 ..
> > [root at ftp ~]# ls -al /var/lib/mysql/
> > total 20
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 mysql mysql 4096 Dec 24 13:13 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Feb 14 11:44 ..
> > drwx------ 2 mysql mysql 4096 Feb 14 11:44 mysql
> > drwx------ 2 mysql mysql 4096 Feb 14 11:44 test
>
> reboot and force fsck
> touch /forcefsck && shutdown -r now
>
> The only time I have ever experienced files not being where they are
> suppose to be after a fresh install of a package is when the hard drive
> was going south.
Uhh... locate is not exactly real time. Depends on updatedb which is
daily by cron if at all. Though it will warn if the database is over 8
days old...
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