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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 02:43:30 +0200
To: "Chris Dritsas" <chrisquestions@hotmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: locate: database too small: ERROR
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I guess you just installed FreeBSD on that machine, right?
You get that message because the locate database hasn't been 
built yet; you must do this by hand (as root):

# /etc/periodic weekly

That command suggests that the db is built by crontab once 
a week; btw it's on Sat at 3:30 in the morning.

At 02:27 6/25/2001, Chris Dritsas wrote the following:
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>Good Day,
>
>When trying to use the 'locate' command I get this error:
>
>  "locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database"
>
>How to I make it bigger so that it shall work?
>
>--Chris
>
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