Re: locate

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

On my older RH (5.something) distribution there is a script called
/usr/bin/updatedb, and this can be run at the command line by root. See if
that exists and if so run it. If it is not there, then see if you have the
findutils rpm installed. My query of the file looks like:

[erich@froinleven erich]$ rpm -qif /usr/bin/updatedb
Name        : findutils                   Distribution: Manhattan 
Version     : 4.1                               Vendor: Red Hat Software
Release     : 25                            Build Date: Wed Jul 2916:54:46 1998
Install date: Thu Nov 12 07:26:26 1998      Build Host: porky.redhat.com
Group       : Utilities/File                Source RPM:findutils-4.1-25.src.rpm
Size        : 159579                           License: GPL
Packager    : Red Hat Software <bugs@redhat.com>
Summary     : GNU Find Utilities (find, xargs, and locate)
Description :
This package contains programs to help you locate files on your
system.  The find program can search through a hierarchy of
directories looking for files matching a certain set of criteria
(such as a filename pattern).  The locate program searches a
database (create by updatedb) to quickly find a file matching
a given pattern.


eks

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