Help needed with gnu version of updatedb

I am trying to use the gnu update program with the following command:

updatedb --localpaths='/home/backups_01' --output=$HOME/.locate/
locate.db

Nothing happens at all. Have I got the options write.

This not the slocate version at slocate.trakker.ca.

- voipfc

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<1184808404.923331.8540 DeleteThis @e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, voipfc wrote:

>I am trying to use the gnu update program with the following command:
>
>updatedb --localpaths='/home/backups_01' --output=$HOME/.locate/
>locate.db

Assuming that is actually one line with the last option reading
'--output=$HOME/.locate/locate.db' and whatever $HOME expands to
in the environment you are running does contain the .locate
directory - OK

>Nothing happens at all.

How are you running the command? Is this from a command-line - if so,
by who, and exactly what happens - does the prompt return immediately
with no message anywhere? Is this a cron job? If so, is $HOME
defined in the cron environment (run a cron job that runs the command
'set > /tmp/cron.environment' to see what that is)? Is there any log
output (perhaps /var/log/cron)?

>Have I got the options write.

Assuming the caveats noted above - it looks OK.

>This not the slocate version at slocate.trakker.ca.

So, exactly which is it? Does 'updatedb --version' tell? (There are
several versions - some of which have been "improved" which could cause
problems. The only GNU version I have immediate access to is version 4.1
from a long time ago, and that is a fairly simple Bourne shell script.)

Old guy