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[sergey AT optimaltec.com]

Paul,

The question is, is this necessary? What new problem is solved by locate that
was not present before? Personally, I object to such changes in sorcery that
require obscure tasks such as creating the (potentially unsecure) locate
database etc. I further believe such changes must be discussed on the lists
*before* being implemented. Did I miss this discussion?

Sergey.

Quoting Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>:

> 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?