Re: Locate

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

If you check /etc/crontab you'll notice that there's a line that does 
something like 'run-parts /etc/cron.daily'. /etc/cron.daily has among others a 
file called 'find' that includes the commands to update the locatedb.

Like the name implies, files in /etc/cron.daily are run once a day, in my case 
at 6:42 am. Cron, crontab, updatedb, run-parts etc. have all manpages that 
have more info about them.

If you want your locatedb updated now, just run /etc/cron.daily/find as root 
and wait a little. I guess your locate database was never initially built.

Pete Poff wrote:
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> like locate <what ever>.  Like locate new.stuff.  I get locate: 
> /var/lib/locate/locatedb: No suck file or directory.  Can anyone tell me 
> why?  And is there a command to see how much disk space I have left?

// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland