Re: locate

["Andreas Lund" <floyd atc no>]

> I´m a newbie, trying to make locate work the expected way.
> Everytime I try to locate something new in my system, locate provide no
> information, so I have to imagine the path to the files (usr/bin, etc..)
>
> Can anybody tell me how to run a cron to make locate rebuild its database
> (think should be this way).

By default, this should be in place already. Check for the file
/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/updatedb -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e
"/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"


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