Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 20:20:26 -0800 From: chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: Rob Zietlow <zietlow@berbee.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q about locate Message-ID: <200111272021352.SM03544@there> In-Reply-To: <200111280349.fAS3nrL07656@berbee.com> References: <200111271942821.SM03544@there> <200111280349.fAS3nrL07656@berbee.com>
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On Tuesday 27 November 2001 07:49 pm, Rob Zietlow wrote: > On Tuesday 27 November 2001 09:42 pm, chip wrote: > > When I tried: > > locate termcap > > I received this response: > > locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database > > Is there something I need to do to fix this problem? The man page doesn't > > cover this. > > You need to go into /usr/libexec and run ./locate.updatedb > > How come this isn't turned on by default so you can automatically search > and you have to wait for one of the periodics to run it (once a week I > believe) Why isn't this run around boot time. If someone installs a > machine say on Saturday, and doesn't run this script they will have to wait > for a week before it gets updated. And I know this was addressed a while > ago on the list and someone wrote a patch for it. Why can you run it as > any user, but when it's done it tells you it's unavaliable to write to the > database? It should stop you immediately. Is this planned on getting > fixed in 5.0? > > Rob :-) I hope you're not asking me those questions cuz I sure don't have any answers. I just did a fresh install of 4.4-r on another machine recently. It is what it is. And there's nothing about this in the instructions I've seen all over the net or in the two books I have on FBSD. -- Thanks for the help, Chip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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