How to update the database ?

Erik Jakobsen

26 Jan 2006 26 Jan '06

19:45

You sure know the situation, that you have erased some files, but after you see, that they are still visible, because the database had not been updated. I have forgotten how that is to be done. Can anybody help me ?. TIA -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

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Randall R Schulz

26 Jan 26 Jan

20:14

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Erik, On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:45, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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You sure know the situation, that you have erased some files, but after you see, that they are still visible, because the database had not been updated.

Do you mean the database consulted by the "locate" command? If so, the command that updates it is "updatedb." On my system it runs daily via a cron job.

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Randall Schulz

Erik Jakobsen

20:22

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Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Do you mean the database consulted by the "locate" command? If so, the command that updates it is "updatedb." On my system it runs daily via a cron job.

Hi Randall, hi David. Was exactly what I need. Thank you. Also the idea using the cron job for it is a good idea. -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

Sunny

20:27

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On 1/26/06, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Do you mean the database consulted by the "locate" command? If so, the command that updates it is "updatedb." On my system it runs daily via a cron job.

Hi Randall, hi David.

Was exactly what I need. Thank you. Also the idea using the cron job for it is a good idea.

It is created by default when you install the package. -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

Erik Jakobsen

27 Jan 27 Jan

07:22

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Randall R Schulz wrote:

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command that updates it is "updatedb." On my system it runs daily via a cron job.

Randall Schulz

Randall!, will this work in /etc/crontab ?: 0 9 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/updatedb -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

Carlos E. R.

11:24

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-01-27 at 08:22 +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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Randall!, will this work in /etc/crontab ?:

0 9 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/updatedb

Why do you want to set it up, if SuSE already did it for you? You were told that already. Have a look at "/etc/cron.daily/updatedb". Configure it in "/etc/sysconfig/locate". - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD2gLitTMYHG2NR9URAp7wAJ91e+PUTVbPmaWRINPMjhQhhHkdOwCcCfr1 Ts6rUkoUo3c+Zw//f+T+4XA= =YBzZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Erik Jakobsen

12:04

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Friday 2006-01-27 at 08:22 +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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Randall!, will this work in /etc/crontab ?:

0 9 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/updatedb

Why do you want to set it up, if SuSE already did it for you? You were told that already.

I'm not sure you believe me, but I didn't know that this was the way to do it. Again, having known it why should I ask ?. Answer me on that please.

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Have a look at "/etc/cron.daily/updatedb". Configure it in "/etc/sysconfig/locate".

Ok, I can see it in /etc/cron.daily/updatedb. Could you please tell me how to configure it in /etc/sysconfig/locate ? TIA -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

Carlos E. R.

13:07

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-01-27 at 13:04 +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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Why do you want to set it up, if SuSE already did it for you? You were told that already.

I'm not sure you believe me, but I didn't know that this was the way to do it. Again, having known it why should I ask ?. Answer me on that please.

Sunny told you that yesterday, although without details.

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Could you please tell me how to configure it in /etc/sysconfig/locate ?

Did you have a look at the file? There is very little you can or even need to touch: by default, it works. The file has coments explaining what each thing is for. This is what I have: RUN_UPDATEDB="yes" RUN_UPDATEDB_AS="nobody" UPDATEDB_NETPATHS="" UPDATEDB_PRUNEPATHS="/mnt /cdrom /tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /var/spool /proc /media /windows " UPDATEDB_NETUSER="" - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD2hr+tTMYHG2NR9URAhpDAJ9xcCqQtE7uzUWz02h9uFxcNlqcpgCghAVi qCMjwqxz0cn81sT+zovvjPg= =bV4U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Randall R Schulz

15:52

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Erik, On Friday 27 January 2006 04:04, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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... Again, having known it why should I ask ?. Answer me on that please.

The document linked below describes the ideal we all aspire to in the quest to ask questions intelligently and maximize the likelihood of getting a useful answer while minimizing the effort or need for psychic abilities on the part of would-be answerers: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Randall Schulz

Erik Jakobsen

15:56

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Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Erik,

The document linked below describes the ideal we all aspire to in the quest to ask questions intelligently and maximize the likelihood of getting a useful answer while minimizing the effort or need for psychic abilities on the part of would-be answerers:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Randall Schulz

Thanks Randall. -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

Erik Jakobsen

12:46

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Have a look at "/etc/cron.daily/updatedb". Configure it in "/etc/sysconfig/locate".

Found it ! RUN_UPDATEDB=yes -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

Ken Schneider

13:06

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On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:46 +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Have a look at "/etc/cron.daily/updatedb". Configure it in "/etc/sysconfig/locate".

Found it !

RUN_UPDATEDB=yes

I see you have the version in your sig, pardon me for missing it. As for the database, if you had stated -- ( When I delete some files and then use locate on the deleted files they still show up. ) -- then there would -not- have been any guess work involved. No different then if someone simply asks -- ( When I run my program it crashes, can anyone help? ). I didn't consider myself rude to ask for additional information as it happens many times on this list. If you can't think of a way to ask a question then post the commands used that are not giving the expected results. It would have been that simple. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

Erik Jakobsen

13:57

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Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:46 +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Have a look at "/etc/cron.daily/updatedb". Configure it in "/etc/sysconfig/locate".

Found it !

RUN_UPDATEDB=yes

I see you have the version in your sig, pardon me for missing it. As for the database, if you had stated -- ( When I delete some files and then use locate on the deleted files they still show up. ) -- then there would -not- have been any guess work involved. No different then if someone simply asks -- ( When I run my program it crashes, can anyone help? ). I didn't consider myself rude to ask for additional information as it happens many times on this list.

If you can't think of a way to ask a question then post the commands used that are not giving the expected results. It would have been that simple.

Ok and thanks Ken. -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

David A. Parker

26 Jan 26 Jan

20:14

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You sure know the situation, that you have erased some files, but after you see, that they are still visible, because the database had not been updated.

If you are talking about the files still showing up when you use the 'locate' command, then all you should have to do is run updatedb and they should go away. - Dave -- Dave Parker Utica College Department of Integrated Information Technology Services Data Processing Office (315) 792-3229 Registered Linux User #408177

vince＠complex.elte.hu

20:35

New subject: [SLE] dircmp missing?

hi I can't find some UNIX command lines on SuSE10 like dircmp. Why is that? o.

Jerry Feldman

21:11

New subject: [SLE] dircmp missing?

On Thursday 26 January 2006 3:35 pm, vince@complex.elte.hu wrote:

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hi

I can't find some UNIX command lines on SuSE10 like dircmp. Why is that? And I am unable to find it on Fedora or even Red Hat 7.1 or RHEL for that matter. (Note that we also have SLES, but these are a boxes that I am currently logged into). I don't remember dircmp every being on Linux although I have frequently used it on commercial Unix systems.

-- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

Greg Freemyer

22:11

New subject: [SLE] dircmp missing?

On 1/26/06, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Thursday 26 January 2006 3:35 pm, vince@complex.elte.hu wrote:

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hi

I can't find some UNIX command lines on SuSE10 like dircmp. Why is that? And I am unable to find it on Fedora or even Red Hat 7.1 or RHEL for that matter. (Note that we also have SLES, but these are a boxes that I am currently logged into). I don't remember dircmp every being on Linux although I have frequently used it on commercial Unix systems.

-- Jerry Feldman

I miss dircmp as well. No idea why it is not part of the SUSE distro. Maybe a GPL version does not exist. As a poor replacement the linux diff command takes a -r (recursive) argument. When I used it recently it gave me all diff output for every file. Nice if that is what you want, but I wanted the dircmp output that just told me what was different at a file-by-file level. Not line-by-line. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

vince＠complex.elte.hu

22:42

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try just diff without -r to see is that what you want On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On 1/26/06, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Thursday 26 January 2006 3:35 pm, vince@complex.elte.hu wrote:

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hi

I can't find some UNIX command lines on SuSE10 like dircmp. Why is that? And I am unable to find it on Fedora or even Red Hat 7.1 or RHEL for that matter. (Note that we also have SLES, but these are a boxes that I am currently logged into). I don't remember dircmp every being on Linux although I have frequently used it on commercial Unix systems.

-- Jerry Feldman

I miss dircmp as well. No idea why it is not part of the SUSE distro. Maybe a GPL version does not exist.

As a poor replacement the linux diff command takes a -r (recursive) argument. When I used it recently it gave me all diff output for every file. Nice if that is what you want, but I wanted the dircmp output that just told me what was different at a file-by-file level. Not line-by-line.

Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

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Carl Hartung

23:09

New subject: [SLE] dircmp missing?

On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:42, vince@complex.elte.hu wrote:

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try just diff without -r to see is that what you want

Another option is mc, which runs from the CLI and uses a split view. It may not be as fast or flexible as dircmp, but you can at least get the job done. regards, - Carl

Greg Freemyer

23:25

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On 1/26/06, vince@complex.elte.hu wrote:

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try just diff without -r to see is that what you want

No then it does not recurse. I normally use dircmp to compare directories of source code and the tree structure is fairly deep. You did get me curious and I found "diff -rq" gives me pretty much what I want. I still prefer the way dircmp presents the output. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

David Bolt

27 Jan 27 Jan

17:29

New subject: [SLE] dircmp missing?

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Greg Freemyer wrote:-

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On 1/26/06, vince@complex.elte.hu wrote:

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try just diff without -r to see is that what you want

No then it does not recurse. I normally use dircmp to compare directories of source code and the tree structure is fairly deep.

You did get me curious and I found "diff -rq" gives me pretty much what I want. I still prefer the way dircmp presents the output.

These may, or may not, be what you're looking for: URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/linux/cdircmp/index.htm URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/linux/gdircmp/index.htm These are an ncurses and GTK+ version of dircmp. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62

Carlos E. R.

26 Jan 26 Jan

23:33

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-01-26 at 17:11 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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As a poor replacement the linux diff command takes a -r (recursive) argument. When I used it recently it gave me all diff output for every file. Nice if that is what you want, but I wanted the dircmp output that just told me what was different at a file-by-file level. Not line-by-line.

Then try Midnight Comander: it has the option "Compare directories C-x d" in the menu. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD2VxDtTMYHG2NR9URAhmRAJ9b8cVwyvf6J+JAkOjSve3BQnu6SQCcCxlh MnRh8MRFj/+gjiWnIqWvm6g= =kGrv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Carl Hartung

27 Jan 27 Jan

00:53

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On Thursday 26 January 2006 18:33, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Then try Midnight Comander: it has the option "Compare directories C-x d" in the menu.

Hi Carlos, Would you please expand on this? I looked and did /not/ see it. Thanks! - Carl FYI: carl@linux:~> mc -V GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1-pre3 Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish, undelfs With builtin Editor Using system-installed S-Lang library with terminfo database With subshell support as default With support for background operations With mouse support on xterm and Linux console With support for X11 events With internationalization support With multiple codepages support

Carlos E. R.

02:37

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-01-26 at 19:53 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:

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Would you please expand on this? I looked and did /not/ see it.

Where did you look? It is under the "command" menu: Left File Command Options Right

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<^~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^v>> | Name | Siz| Directory tree |Size | MTime | |/.. |UP--| Find file M-? |P--DIR| | |/.AbiSuite | | sWap panels C-u | 48|Jul 15 2004| |/.Sear~escue| | switch Panels on/off C-o | 67|Aug 26 03:09| |/.Trash | 4| Compare directories C-x d | 4096|Jan 10 15:39| |/.acrobat | | eXternal panelize C-x ! | 18|Nov 9 2002| |/.adobe | | show directory sIzes | 50|May 6 2005|

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Carl Hartung

03:01

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On Thursday 26 January 2006 21:37, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Where did you look? It is under the "command" menu:

Ah, thanks! My dyslexia strikes again! :-) I think I'm going to change the default colors in mc regards, - Carl

Carl William Spitzer IV

7 May 7 May

20:36

New subject: [SLE] dircmp missing?

Seems to be a python thing in Suse 9.2. Ill look for my disks. Can it be updated to work in 10.0? I do not know python, yet. On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 16:11 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Thursday 26 January 2006 3:35 pm, vince@complex.elte.hu wrote:

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hi

I can't find some UNIX command lines on SuSE10 like dircmp. Why is that? And I am unable to find it on Fedora or even Red Hat 7.1 or RHEL for that matter. (Note that we also have SLES, but these are a boxes that I am currently logged into). I don't remember dircmp every being on Linux although I have frequently used it on commercial Unix systems.

-- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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Jerry Feldman

8 May 8 May

15:50

New subject: [SLE] dircmp missing?

On Sunday 07 May 2006 4:36 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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Seems to be a python thing in Suse 9.2. Ill look for my disks. Can it be updated to work in 10.0?

I do not know python, yet.

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 16:11 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Thursday 26 January 2006 3:35 pm, vince@complex.elte.hu wrote:

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hi

I can't find some UNIX command lines on SuSE10 like dircmp. Why is that?

And I am unable to find it on Fedora or even Red Hat 7.1 or RHEL for that matter. (Note that we also have SLES, but these are a boxes that I am currently logged into). I don't remember dircmp every being on Linux although I have frequently used it on commercial Unix systems. Carl, Aren't you a bit late on responding in that the message you are replying to is from January. Essentially, dircmp(1) is no longer included in Linux. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

Carl William Spitzer IV

22 May 22 May

23:08

New subject: [SLE] dircmp missing?

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:50 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Sunday 07 May 2006 4:36 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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Seems to be a python thing in Suse 9.2. Ill look for my disks. Can it be updated to work in 10.0?

I do not know python, yet.

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 16:11 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Thursday 26 January 2006 3:35 pm, vince@complex.elte.hu wrote:

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hi

I can't find some UNIX command lines on SuSE10 like dircmp. Why is that?

And I am unable to find it on Fedora or even Red Hat 7.1 or RHEL for that matter. (Note that we also have SLES, but these are a boxes that I am currently logged into). I don't remember dircmp every being on Linux although I have frequently used it on commercial Unix systems. Carl, Aren't you a bit late on responding in that the message you are replying to is from January. Essentially, dircmp(1) is no longer included in Linux. --

A lot yes. But I only noticed the gap in the programs when I had to reinstall due to small a / partition. Is there a replacement for this program? -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

Greg Freemyer

23 May 23 May

12:30

New subject: [SLE] dircmp missing?

On 5/22/06, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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On Sunday 07 May 2006 4:36 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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Seems to be a python thing in Suse 9.2. Ill look for my disks. Can it be updated to work in 10.0?

I do not know python, yet.

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 16:11 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Thursday 26 January 2006 3:35 pm, vince@complex.elte.hu wrote:

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hi

I can't find some UNIX command lines on SuSE10 like dircmp. Why is that?

And I am unable to find it on Fedora or even Red Hat 7.1 or RHEL for that matter. (Note that we also have SLES, but these are a boxes

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:50 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: that I

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am currently logged into). I don't remember dircmp every being on Linux although I have frequently used it on commercial Unix systems. Carl, Aren't you a bit late on responding in that the message you are replying to is from January. Essentially, dircmp(1) is no longer included in Linux. --

A lot yes. But I only noticed the gap in the programs when I had to reinstall due to small a / partition.

Is there a replacement for this program?

I've been using "diff -rq" when I used to use dircmp. Not exactly the same, but close enough to provide similar functionality. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

Ken Schneider

26 Jan 26 Jan

21:37

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On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 20:45 +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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You sure know the situation, that you have erased some files, but after you see, that they are still visible, because the database had not been updated.

I have forgotten how that is to be done.

Can anybody help me ?.

TIA

Is this the best information you can supply? Which version of SUSE are you using? Which database are you talking about (mysql, postgresql, rpm)? No one on this that I know of has a working crystal ball. More information is needed to give an accurate answer. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

Erik Jakobsen

27 Jan 27 Jan

05:59

New subject: [SLE] How to update the database ?

Ken Schneider wrote:

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You sure know the situation, that you have erased some files, but after you see, that they are still visible, because the database had not been updated.

Is this the best information you can supply? Which version of SUSE are you using? Which database are you talking about (mysql, postgresql, rpm)? No one on this that I know of has a working crystal ball. More information is needed to give an accurate answer.

Ken!, I did give the best Information I could give. I don't know what the database belongs to, but I wrote what I wasn't able to. There were other who was sure what I meant. I feel you are a bit rude. -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

Twizys Insane Carny

06:16

New subject: [SLE] How to update the database ?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Jakobsen" To: Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 7:59 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] How to update the database ?

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Ken Schneider wrote:

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You sure know the situation, that you have erased some files, but after you see, that they are still visible, because the database had not been updated.

Is this the best information you can supply? Which version of SUSE are you using? Which database are you talking about (mysql, postgresql, rpm)? No one on this that I know of has a working crystal ball. More information is needed to give an accurate answer.

Ken!, I did give the best Information I could give. I don't know what the database belongs to, but I wrote what I wasn't able to. There were other who was sure what I meant. I feel you are a bit rude.

I agree with ken. there isn't enough info here. no ones trying to be rude. We can help if you give us more info. what version you running. There could be a bug in a version. Thats why its best to know what version you running. there could be a fix for it. Regards Gerald

Erik Jakobsen

06:31

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Twizys Insane Carny wrote:

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I agree with ken. there isn't enough info here. no ones trying to be rude. We can help if you give us more info. what version you running. There could be a bug in a version. Thats why its best to know what version you running. there could be a fix for it.

Regards Gerald

Gerald!, As mentioned I could not give a better description than I did. This information was ok, as I got what I needed from 2 members of this list, that understood what I meant. I can't see why to carry on the discussion, as it has been solved, as you'll see, if you read back in the archive. -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

Carlos E. R.

11:23

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-01-27 at 07:31 +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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Gerald!, As mentioned I could not give a better description than I did. This information was ok, as I got what I needed from 2 members of this list, that understood what I meant.

Their crystal ball must be much better quality than ours. I had no clue what you were talking about till they explained. Database? What database? You didn't say. Now I know, but not because you said it. I'm sure there were many people baffled who just didn't say anything. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD2gLFtTMYHG2NR9URAqoqAJwMu9lM5PhrlkxjG2azn/BA8mMXCACeJkl2 OKtTj/h2kWQfZF74Za+o2Fg= =0bWo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Erik Jakobsen

11:59

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Their crystal ball must be much better quality than ours. I had no clue what you were talking about till they explained. Database? What database? You didn't say. Now I know, but not because you said it. I'm sure there were many people baffled who just didn't say anything.

I have told it more than one times: *I didn't know what database it was. Then all you people cannot claim me for doing as I did.* The list has really shown itself from a very unkind site today. Don't you people have anything to do to than claim about me ?. If so then use your energy to more constructive things. If I had known what database it was I have told it, but you all may think I make fun with it. I'm really in a sad mode now. Thanks for helping to that level! -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

Carlos E. R.

13:14

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-01-27 at 12:59 +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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I have told it more than one times:

*I didn't know what database it was. Then all you people cannot claim me for doing as I did.*

You could have said that you referred to the database used by the command "locate", that would have been more than sufficient. Or you could have said that the command "locate" found files that you had already deleted.

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I'm really in a sad mode now.

Sorry about that. Be happy! It could have been worse: if you had mentioned the command "locate", I'm 90% sure that somebody would have told you to RTFM :-P - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD2hyptTMYHG2NR9URAk1XAKCIte1WgVoIgFVrIgc0p6WD5dxonACfYQX/ ffqs4xS0nm7zJuKar6Z+4A4= =yc1z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Randall R Schulz

15:58

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Carlos, Erik, On Friday 27 January 2006 05:14, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Friday 2006-01-27 at 12:59 +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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I have told it more than one times:

*I didn't know what database it was. Then all you people cannot claim me for doing as I did.*

You could have said that you referred to the database used by the command "locate", that would have been more than sufficient. Or you could have said that the command "locate" found files that you had already deleted.

True. Two of us had the right hunch, as it turns out.

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I'm really in a sad mode now.

Actually, I'm sad about _that_. You're right, we were too harsh on this matter. Please understand that regulars here answer the same question many times over, and when questions are poorly phrased, their desire to be helpful is thwarted and another increment of their time wasted. It has also been my experience over many years on many, many lists, that if the regulars don't ride herd on the newbies and infrequent posters, the lists standards really do decline and its value goes down along with the quality of both the mechanics of posting (quote removal, suitable positioning of replies, etc.) and of the content of the posts.

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Sorry about that.

Be happy! It could have been worse: if you had mentioned the command "locate", I'm 90% sure that somebody would have told you to RTFM :-P

The only thing left to doubt is whether there would have been more redundant + erroneous replies than this thread has already received owing to the understatement of the original query...

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Carlos Robinson

Randall Schulz

Bruce Marshall

16:08

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On Friday 27 January 2006 10:58, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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It has also been my experience over many years on many, many lists, that if the regulars don't ride herd on the newbies and infrequent posters, the lists standards really do decline and its value goes down along with the quality of both the mechanics of posting (quote removal, suitable positioning of replies, etc.) and of the content of the posts.

Well said... Not as a reprimand to anyone but as a statement of fact.

Bruce Marshall

15:41

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On Friday 27 January 2006 01:31, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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Gerald!, As mentioned I could not give a better description than I did. This information was ok, as I got what I needed from 2 members of this list, that understood what I meant.

Yes, but you didn't mention the command you were using to 'see' the files! That would have helped a lot.

Erik Jakobsen

15:46

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Bruce Marshall wrote:

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On Friday 27 January 2006 01:31, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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Gerald!, As mentioned I could not give a better description than I did. This information was ok, as I got what I needed from 2 members of this list, that understood what I meant.

Yes, but you didn't mention the command you were using to 'see' the files!

That would have helped a lot.

Right -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org

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