From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 25 14: 7:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50BF714BF8 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 14:07:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA21288; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:07:04 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:07:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Steve Price To: John Cc: outlawtx@bga.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "locate" command In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990925170130.00958e20@unix01.voicenet.com> 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 You can also run /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate which will take care of all the grungy details for you. -steve On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, John wrote: # 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 # To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message