From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 1:21:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cgmd76206.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC8E37B503 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 01:21:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from edwin@cgmd76206.chello.nl) Received: by cgmd76206.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E39E33CF; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:21:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:21:30 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things linux has (suggestion/question). Message-ID: <20010220102130.G4233@cgmd76206.chello.nl> References: <20010220101431.E4233@cgmd76206.chello.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010220101431.E4233@cgmd76206.chello.nl>; from mavetju@chello.nl on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:14:31AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:14:31AM +0100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:59:56AM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > 1. Linux has a locate utility called slocate, which (A) rebuilds its > > database MUCH faster and (B) allows you to search with your privileges > > (for example, if you type locate as root, you can search the whole drive, > > whereas another user would not be able to see in things like user > > homedirs, etc). Btw: Maybe the rebuilding is much faster, the searching is not really... Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message