Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:53:05 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jon Adams <jonaadam@nsu.acast.nova.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slocate? Message-ID: <20040621105305.GA56286@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <40D6B77A.9030102@nsu.nova.edu> References: <40D6B77A.9030102@nsu.nova.edu>
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On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:24:58AM -0400, Jon Adams wrote:
> Okay, I am a relative FreeBSD newbie, my main question is....
>=20
> Is there a tool similar to Linux secure locate (slocate) that can be=20
> used on FreeBSD. I dont want to do a complicated find with
> 50 million options to find a file. I downloaded the slocate-2.7 source=
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> and I get a weird makefile error I have never seen before.
locate(1) comes with the system. By default the locate database gets
updated weekly by the /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate script -- this
script builds the database using the 'nobody' UID, so generally files
that are not world readable will not be included. If I remember
correctly, that's about the same as what slocate does to build it's
database of files (and what earns it that 's' title...)
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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