[nycbug-talk] Updatedb

Joshua S. Freeman jfreeman
Tue Oct 12 15:52:26 EDT 2004


Thanks  Scott!

I appreciate it!  Doh!  I shoulda thought of it myself!

J.


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> From: Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:10:39 -0400
> To: "NYCBUG discussion list <talk at lists.nycbug.org" <talk at lists.nycbug.org>
> Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] Updatedb
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> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:59:56AM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 12:56:48PM -0400, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
>>> Can someone kindly tell me where the command 'updatedb' lives on freebsd 4
>>> stable? I need to update the 'locate' database.
>> 
>> /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
>> 
>> Thought running the /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate script is probably a
>> better idea.
> 
> Quick note (not a lecture, just point of info as judging from your posts
> you're always eager to learn--Josh, that is--err, not that Tillman isn't
> eager to learn, uh, oh the heck with it :)   ).
> 
> Doing a 
> 
> man locate
> 
> would have given you the information.  (If you forget in the future,
> once you do man locate, just page down to the end, where they list the
> files....errr, not that it ever happens to me, you understand but, err
> uh, a friend of mine--yeah, that's it, a friend of mine, sometimes has
> that problem)  :)
> 
> 
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> Scott
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