Hi SuSErs Please, could someone kindly tell me, if SuSE 8 uses something else, in place of < updatedb> and < locate > I could not, yet, locate these facilities. thanks :) best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
tabanna said:
Hi SuSErs
Please, could someone kindly tell me, if SuSE 8 uses something else, in place of < updatedb> and < locate >
I could not, yet, locate these facilities.
thanks :)
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http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/mlasars_no_locate.html i also don't know another tool: find is too slow .... -- greetz Frederik Vos www.vosberg.be
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 17:10, tabanna wrote:
Hi SuSErs
Please, could someone kindly tell me, if SuSE 8 uses something else, in place of < updatedb> and < locate >
I could not, yet, locate these facilities.
thanks :)
It's the same... But they are not installed by default. (Along with a whole other bunch of stuff I was expecting to be there, when I did a 'default' install.) A bit different from 7.x... I was wrong-footed at first. Do a search for 'locate' in your packages. It's on the CD/DVD. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Hey, I did "Install Everything" (except sources), and I **still** didn't get "locate". Is that another one of those "For licensing reasons, we include it on the CD, but cannot automatically install" ?? /kevin On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:22, Simon wrote:
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 17:10, tabanna wrote:
Hi SuSErs
Please, could someone kindly tell me, if SuSE 8 uses something else, in place of < updatedb> and < locate >
I could not, yet, locate these facilities.
thanks :)
It's the same... But they are not installed by default. (Along with a whole other bunch of stuff I was expecting to be there, when I did a 'default' install.) A bit different from 7.x... I was wrong-footed at first.
Do a search for 'locate' in your packages. It's on the CD/DVD.
I doubt it... It's GNU-locate after all. I don't remember seeing a 'Install Everything' option this time around. I got minimal, minimal with graphics (no KDE), default, and default with office. On Wednesday 05 June 2002 17:31, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
Hey, I did "Install Everything" (except sources), and I **still** didn't get "locate".
Is that another one of those "For licensing reasons, we include it on the CD, but cannot automatically install" ??
/kevin
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:22, Simon wrote:
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 17:10, tabanna wrote:
Hi SuSErs
Please, could someone kindly tell me, if SuSE 8 uses something else, in place of < updatedb> and < locate >
I could not, yet, locate these facilities.
thanks :)
It's the same... But they are not installed by default. (Along with a whole other bunch of stuff I was expecting to be there, when I did a 'default' install.) A bit different from 7.x... I was wrong-footed at first.
Do a search for 'locate' in your packages. It's on the CD/DVD.
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On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 00:31, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
Hey, I did "Install Everything" (except sources), and I **still** didn't get "locate".
Is that another one of those "For licensing reasons, we include it on the CD, but cannot automatically install" ??
/kevin
In the SuSE 8.0 Reference manual it says on page 69: The locate tool for quickly finding files is no longer included in the standard software installation. If desired, install it later. If installed, the updatedb process - just as it did in previous versions - will be automatically activated about fifteen minutes after starting your computer. No explanation is offered for the change, but I don't think it has anything to do with licensing. Rather, I assume it's because a lot of people really get annoyed by the big performance hit that occurs when updatedb runs. If updatedb runs while you're doing something memory intensive, it can bring your machine to a near halt. However, the solution to that is simple - move the script updatedb from /etc/cron.daily to /etc/cron.weekly or /etc/cron.monthly, or just move it to your home directory (for safe-keeping) and run updatedb manually whenever you feel like it. - Robert Storey
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On June 5, 2002 10:20 pm, Robert Storey wrote: ...snip...
In the SuSE 8.0 Reference manual it says on page 69:
The locate tool for quickly finding files is no longer included in the standard software installation. If desired, install it later. If installed, the updatedb process - just as it did in previous versions - will be automatically activated about fifteen minutes after starting your computer.
No explanation is offered for the change, but I don't think it has anything to do with licensing. Rather, I assume it's because a lot of people really get annoyed by the big performance hit that occurs when updatedb runs. If updatedb runs while you're doing something memory intensive, it can bring your machine to a near halt.
It's more likely a security issue. The less information users can get about stuff they don't need to know about (location of sensitive files), the better. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8/1cy+FOexA3koIgRAlYYAJ99+bl2Trgz2tgiranDBmW3N1+fdwCgglKR 8nTy/izi7y9molGMp624eUA= =pGrZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
James Oakley
It's more likely a security issue.
Nope ;-) He was right. The reason was too many people complaining of the performance hit the machine takes when updatedb runs. Most of those complaining probably never knew what 'locate' does, let alone that something like that exists. Philipp
Philipp Thomas
Nope ;-) He was right. The reason was too many people complaining of the performance hit the machine takes when updatedb runs. Most of those complaining probably never knew what 'locate' does, let alone that something like that exists.
Isn't that why cron.daily normally runs in the (very) early hours of the morning when, hopefully, there will not be much user activity? Or is the problem mainly with people who only power on the computer when they want to use it, so that the system has to "catch up" with its housekeeping when the system is booted?
Graham Murray
Or is the problem mainly with people who only power on the computer when they want to use it, so that the system has to "catch up" with its housekeeping when the system is booted?
Exactly that's the problem. Otherwise only few would be hit by the disc activity. Philipp
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 20:35, James Oakley wrote:
It's more likely a security issue. The less information users can get about stuff they don't need to know about (location of sensitive files), the better.
- -- James Oakley
I hadn't thought about security, and you may be right James, but I've noticed that /usr/bin/locate is set with permissions 751. Couldn't you keep it away from non-root users by setting permissions to 700? - Robert Storey
onsdagen den 5 juni 2002 18.10 wrote tabanna:
Hi SuSErs
Please, could someone kindly tell me, if SuSE 8 uses something else, in place of < updatedb> and < locate >
I could not, yet, locate these facilities.
For some strange reason locate is not among the automagically selected packages. just fire up your yast2 (with a gui if you're lucky) and install it. Olle Viksten -- MicroSoft Network may not carry this message without license to do so. License to carry this message requires a fee of $1000, payable within 30 days to Olle Viksten. Appearance of this message on MicroSoft Network constitutes an agreement to terms.
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