-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 May 2003 2:52 pm, R R wrote:
locate not found, is this not installed?
It has been moved out of the "findutils" package into "findutils-locate"; findutils is still installed by default, -locate isn't. For most "consumer" users, this is probably OK -- the "updatedb" job is scheduled to run at some ungodly hour [ok, midnight...] and either (a) they don't expect home users to be on or leave their system on for this, or (b) if they are on at midnight, they'll probably be annoyed by the "sudden slowdown" as they run "find" against the entire drive to populate/update the locate database. [and if you do shut your system off at night, the way this particular "cron" entry is set up it will fire up 15 minutes after you boot the next day -- equally annoying to some...] - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+uYMuV/YHUqq2SwsRAtghAJ48vhxBtNH5it5evy77A4VfcliaBgCfapJi K9AxSGTZgAzsfJzEC97/CQg= =9lnh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 18:05, Tom Emerson wrote:
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On Wednesday 07 May 2003 2:52 pm, R R wrote:
locate not found, is this not installed?
It has been moved out of the "findutils" package into "findutils-locate"; findutils is still installed by default, -locate isn't.
For most "consumer" users, this is probably OK -- the "updatedb" job is scheduled to run at some ungodly hour [ok, midnight...] and either (a) they don't expect home users to be on or leave their system on for this, or (b) if they are on at midnight, they'll probably be annoyed by the "sudden slowdown" as they run "find" against the entire drive to populate/update the locate database.
[and if you do shut your system off at night, the way this particular "cron" entry is set up it will fire up 15 minutes after you boot the next day -- equally annoying to some...]
i think that is a poor decision. updatedb comes handy for locate other then that it makes no sense
i think that is a poor decision [to not install locate by default with SuSE]
I agree. Of course now that I know the name of the package it's in, I'll install it! -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions
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