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Date:      Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:07:04 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        John <papalia@UDel.Edu>
Cc:        outlawtx@bga.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "locate" command
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9909251605020.6799-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990925170130.00958e20@unix01.voicenet.com>

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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
# 
# 
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