Re: SuSE 10 and locate command

From: houghi (houghi_at_houghi.org.invalid)
Date: 10/11/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:36:49 +0200

wbarwell wrote:
> First of all, you need to run slocate -a
> This will build your database, and it will take awhile.
> Run this from a terminal, either as root or su.
> A lot of people like to set this up under chron to run
> at night to update thd database every so often.
> Locate can only see stuff in the database that has
> been added by slocate -a.

Not sure where you get your programs, but when I intsall with YaST, I
either just run updatedb or wait for it to happen automagically. 

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