The Sunday 2005-02-13 at 13:53 -0800, John Sowden wrote:
Thanks all for the find/locate help. I found locate (as was advised, it was under a different name), and ran updatedb as root, not user. I didn't see this reference in the man page.
Locate is named locate, as always. It is the rpm which has a different name. However, using yast, or better, "pin", you could easily have found "locate".
It seems that the whole documentation issue for linux is lacking. The doc tells 90% of the story, and I end up going to the net search out that last 10%, including bothering all of you helpful people. As programs are written, or updated, a new type of doc should be created that is a superset of the other 3? (man, howto, info), so they become either irrelevant or very tercnnical for the more advanced user (e.g. man pages).
Agreed. For example, check the man pages for ls in suse 9.1. The spanish page is for version fileutils-4.0, dated november 1998, whereas the english or default version comes from "coreutils 5.2.1", dated 2004. The spanish version is not only outdated, but incorrect/incomplete. That's quality control. :-( -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson