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Subject: Re: locate ? boot manager? (fwd)
To: honglu@rt66.com (Henry H Lu)
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 00:27:00 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961013174936.1503D-100000@blast> from "Henry H Lu" at Oct 13, 96 05:51:02 pm
From: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson)
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in the last episode, Henry H Lu said:
> 
> When I type "updatedb", error message: no such command!! There is no 
> "updatedb" to update database!! Is there other command?
> 
> Henry H Lu

Since it's not really meant to be run by Joe User, it's not in the
path. It's /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb, but check out /etc/weekly to
see how it should be run.  I simply moved the code to /etc/daily, since
it only takes a few minutes to run on my system.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com