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[Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

But why use locate?  I never run updatedb and after awhile the db gets 
horribly out of synch.  Updatedb also takes a ridiculous amount of time 
to run.  What is locate doing in sorcery?  Why not use find?

Jeremy


Paul Mahon wrote:
> locate is provided by findutils, which is still part of the base system.
> You will need to run updatedb at least once as root to create the
> locatedb file. I don't think it runs it automaticaly, and I don't think
> it sets up a cron job to do it either.
>
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 09:15 -0500, sergey AT optimaltec.com wrote:
>
> > It looks like the latest devel sorcery is using `locate.' I can see the 
> > messages
> > that /var/cache/locatedb is missing. I don't think locate is part of the
> > basesystem. Any reason for this?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Sergey.
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