From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 8 20:19:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF0A16A41C for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 20:19:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeremy@smart-serv.net) Received: from smart-serv.net (smart-serv.net [64.251.71.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A19F843D46 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 20:19:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeremy@smart-serv.net) Received: (qmail 44500 invoked by uid 0); 8 Jul 2005 20:19:55 -0000 Received: from 64.251.71.178 by smart-serv.net (envelope-from , uid 0) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.83/839. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:RC:1(64.251.71.178):. Processed in 0.290605 secs); 08 Jul 2005 20:19:55 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: jeremy@smart-serv.net via smart-serv.net X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(64.251.71.178):. Processed in 0.290605 secs) Received: from smart-serv.net (HELO ?192.168.1.248?) (@64.251.71.178) by smart-serv.net with SMTP; 8 Jul 2005 20:19:54 -0000 Message-ID: <42CEDFEE.1030107@smart-serv.net> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:19:58 -0700 From: Jeremy Johnston Organization: SmartServ Hosting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050205) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD mailinglist References: <44fyupdq8e.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44fyupdq8e.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org, e0025265@student.tuwien.ac.at Subject: Re: simple locate question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jeremy@smart-serv.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 20:19:56 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: >"Florian Hengstberger" writes: > > > >>How to creata a second locate database for private use? >>(mp3 database or so). >>I have tried >>$ locate -U dir_with_mp3s -o database.dtb >> >>Searching in this database doent work >>$ locate -d database.dtb somesong.mp3 >>gives no result. >>The database exists and it looks ok, seems to be a simple >>ascii format. >>What am I doing wrong? >>I guess its simple, isn't it! >> >> > >I don't know; the standard locate program doesn't take a -U option, >and will give an error message accordingly if called the way you claim >you did. Have you installed some other version of locate? > >To use the standard locate, you use the locate.updatedb(8) script, as >the locate(1) manual will tell you. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > FCODES="database.dtb"; SEARCHPATHS="dir_with_mp3s"; export FCODES; export SEARCHPATHS; /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb then of course using locate -d database.dtb somefile -- Jeremy Johnston (President / Developer) SmartServ Hosting Email: jeremy@smart-serv.net Phone: 1-250-402-6634 Ext. 201 Cell: 1-250-402-9583 | 2504029583@msg.telus.com (150 Characters max) Fax: 1-250-402-6634 Toll Free: 1-866-702-2904