Re: Locate

[Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>]

Pete Poff <ppoff01@mail.coin.missouri.edu> writes:

> 	when I use locate I get an error.  This is what I get if I type 
> 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?

Chances are you are experiencing a bug in an older cron package.
There was a version which would not set up cron to run automatically
at boot time.  You can get it cron started with

 /etc/init.d/cron start

as root.  And you can fix the problem permanently by upgrading your
cron package.

-- 
Rob