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Re: Locate

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

> 
> Hi,
> 	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?

Another possibility is that you are using an old, buggy version of
findutils.  findutils-4.1-20 is the best version, which is currently
in frozen.  I introduced some bugs in the early versions of the
current stable release of findutils.




-- 
Kevin Dalley
kevin@aimnet.com
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