John, On Sunday 13 February 2005 13:53, John Sowden wrote:
On Sunday 13 February 2005 07:07, Jim Sabatke wrote:
James Knott wrote:
John Sowden wrote:
Thanks, but I looked for the locate command several years ago. It seems that locate is not installed in any of the suse distros that I have used, currently 8.2. I tried it again just now, to be sure and got a command not found, including under user root.
You have to install the findutils-locate package.
And run updatedb (as root) before running it. Good idea to put updatedb in cron to run in off hours.
Jim
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.
If you installed the SuSE distribution's findutils-locate package, then the cron job should have been created for you. Make sure your system is running at 4:00 am or that you modify the cron job to run at a time when your system _is_ up. Alternately, you can remove the cron job and handle running updatedb manually.
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Thanks again, John
Randall Schulz