From: Thibaut Cousin [mailto:linux@thibaut-cousin.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:46 PM
It's right, I promise. ;-) And because updatedb takes a lot of resources when it's run, some people complained that their computer was very slow the first minutes after boot, and they didn't know why because they didn't know what updatedb was. So most distributions removed locate/updatedb from the default installation.
lol, yes, updatedb is a resource-killer ^^
True enough. But there are lots of file that you will never find with whereis, so it was a warning not to trust it for a generic search.
yes and that's why i use whereis only to search for executables. for a generic search is find helpful, updatedb takes too much time to refresh!
Regards,
regards, frank