From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 16:17:18 2006 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 47EA216A4E0 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 16:17:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F61F43D46 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 16:17:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 04 Sep 2006 16:17:15 -0000 Received: from ip176-173-59-62.adsl.versatel.nl (EHLO [192.168.2.5]) [62.59.173.176] by mail.gmx.net (mp037) with SMTP; 04 Sep 2006 18:17:15 +0200 X-Authenticated: #25365336 Message-ID: <44FC5195.3020705@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:17:25 +0200 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060706) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: azhar freebsd References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is my adduser.conf file ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:17:18 -0000 azhar freebsd wrote: > hi all > i am new abt freebsd . > it may be very simple problem but i am lost . help me ! > > > > [root@mine]/etc# uname -a > FreeBSD mine.freebsd.org 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1: Wed Aug 30 > 13:08:32 JST 2006 > root@mine.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MYGENRIC-001 > i386 > > [root@mine]/etc# whereis adduser.conf > adduser.conf: > [root@mine]/etc# > > azhar > _______________________________________________ > 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" > > 'whereis' only looks in the ports or the location of the executable's. If you want to find a file you should use 'find' or locate. : find / -name "whatever-you-re-looking-for" or use locate, but before you can use locate you have to create the locate database. When you search frequently it's advisable to use locate since it's faster. Though wheter the results are acurate depends on the last time you updated your locate database so: /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb locate whateveryourelookingfore locate somethingelse locate another thing GL and HF in FreeBSD -- -Frank Staals