From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 5:44: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (unknown [209.23.60.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95AE337B401 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 05:43:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 44815 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2001 13:43:50 -0000 Received: from localhost.snowmoon.com (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.snowmoon.com with SMTP; 5 Feb 2001 13:43:50 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:43:50 -0500 (EST) From: Jaime To: Ivo Perov Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Locate DB update (was Re: Please help) In-Reply-To: <000c01c08f78$cb33f000$f100a8c0@petrov> 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 On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Ivo Perov wrote: > I use FreeBSD and I cannot find in manual how to update the locate > database please send me information. It updates weekly by itself if you leave the computer on. If that isn't good enough for your needs, I've found that using /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb will do it. On the other hand, it takes quite a while to finish running on most systems. Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message