From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 18 9:54:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from radius.wavefire.com (radius.workfire.net [139.142.95.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D10CF15388 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:54:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swen@wavefire.com) Received: (qmail 21578 invoked from network); 18 Aug 1999 17:13:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO swen) (139.142.95.222) by radius.workfire.net with SMTP; 18 Aug 1999 17:13:53 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19990818095505.00962c10@mail.wavefire.com> X-Sender: swen@mail.wavefire.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:55:05 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Chameleon Subject: RE: locate database too small Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In your /usr/libexec directory, run the locate.updatedb file. this will troll through your directory tree and update the locate database Swen Kabis At 09:38 AM 8/18/99 -0700, you wrote: >Hi; > >When I try: > $ locate < >I get the Error: > locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database > >How to fix this problem so I can locate files and do 'whereis << file_name> >also. >This is a new 3.2-RELEASE machine. > > >Dan > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > ~ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GCS/O d-(+) s:+>:- a- C++++ UB++$>++++$ P+ L++>++++$ E-- W++(++) N+ o? K? w--- O- M-- V-- PS+ PE@ Y PGP t++ 5++ X R* tv++ b+++(+) DI++ D+++ G++ e++ h---->$ r+++ x** -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message