[OS X TeX] kpsewhich pointing to wrong location?

[Roussanka Loukanova]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 20.01.2007 um 16:49 schrieb Michael S. Hanson:
>
>> 	I don't have the Unix expertise to confirm this claim, but I recall 
>> reading somewhere that the switch from cron to launchd in 10.4.x largely 
>> eliminated this problem -- that the periodic tasks would be run at the next 
>> opportune time if they did not execute on schedule.  Fact or fiction?
>>
>> 	(As one data point, I notice that on my home iMac running 10.4.8, 
>> /var/db/locate.database was last updated at 18:25 on Mon, Jan 15.  I don't 
>> know if that is "normal" or if some other process spawned an update, but I 
>> didn't do it manually, and the iMac is very rarely not asleep overnight.)
>
> You might have anacron (from Mac Ports or Fink) ...
>
I have never downloaded anything from these sites; and here is what I 
have:

$ ls -l /var/db/locate.database
-r--r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  6138843 Jan 20 16:57 /var/db/locate.database

Roussanka

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