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  • From: Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>
  • To: Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Using 'locate' in sorcery?
  • Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:23:56 -0400

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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