On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:05:08PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Friday 19 December 2003 11:58, David Baron wrote: > > 1. locate -- its database is old. How does one update it? > > man updatedb If it's not being run by default it probably means you turn your computer off at night when cron jobs would normally run; in which case you might like to install the anacron package. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]