From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 8:22:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A7C37B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A07DF328E; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 07:46:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 881DB328D; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 07:46:47 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 07:46:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-like locate? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hey all, I had an experience with locate on a linux system once, and I > noted that for regular users, it displayed world-readable directories, > whereas if you ran locate as root, it automatically had a separate > database which seemed to index the whole hard drive (including /var/log, > etc). Is there any way to get this functionality under FreeBSD? FreeBSD has a locate command also. You have to build the database under /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message