From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 15:00:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A5891065679 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:00:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 848E78FC12 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:00:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from OMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.43]) by QMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id oEGB1Z0010vp7WLAAF09xm; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:00:09 +0000 Received: from localhost ([67.188.180.64]) by OMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id oF081Z00P1PlroK8RF09GY; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:00:09 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=xq_Ln0J-7UikMkODu0kA:9 a=mvAe0d4sP0LNsyFaElQA:7 a=HpT8WI9HGU-sdCJE8UPD7S1iT7gA:4 a=MxZ3bB5I4kYA:10 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:00:08 -0700 From: Rem P Roberti To: Daniel Gerzo Message-ID: <20080710150008.GD99511@remdogbsd> Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Gerzo , Roger Olofsson , FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: FreeBSD , Roger Olofsson Subject: Re: Locate command X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:00:10 -0000 > > Hello, > > >> Actually, the very first thing I always do after installing a FreeBSD is > >> add this line to crontab: > >> > >> 00 02 * * * /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb > >> > >> I guess I'm a locate-freak ;^D > >> > > > > Done. Thanks again. > > You guys should rather use /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate script > to update your locate database. I'm pretty new to all of this, so how does one go about invoking that script? Thanks, Rem