From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 25 14: 4:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B3114E4A for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 14:04:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from morgaine.avalon.com (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA17492; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:04:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990925170130.00958e20@unix01.voicenet.com> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:02:04 -0400 To: outlawtx@bga.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Subject: Re: "locate" command In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990925160714.01350640@bga.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You need to run /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb to build your database. If you've never run it before, that could be the reason why. --John >I can't seem to get "locate" to work. > >I type: > >locate mc > >and get back: > >locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database > >What's going on here? > >Thanks for your help. > >Don James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message