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  • From: "David C. Haley" <dhaley AT tamsco.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Using 'locate' in sorcery?
  • Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 21:31:19 +0400

On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:25:11 -0400
Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net> 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.
>

I know that this isn't setup with cron automaticlly. I have always had to run
updatedb manually. As far as the updatedb dbase getting build automaticlly I
am not sure about that one.

Regards,
SilverS

> 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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