Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4626 mails)

[Benjamin Rosenberg <red.kryptonite@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 17, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote:

> On Wednesday January 17 2007 6:41 pm, Robert Lewis wrote:
> > > Install locate.....it's a UNIX util. available from several of the
> > > servers. It runs from commandline, but quick and VERY usefull.  
> > > Beagle
> > > isn't ready for prime time yet.
> > >
> > > Fred
> >
> > I like locate and have been using it for years.  It's an RPM
> > installable off the installation media.  I think you have to turn
> > it on after installation through YaST services.
>
> No......once installed, open a konsole, su or sux to root, then run  
> "updatedb"
> Once done, then locate works fine.

And after this it will be updated via a cronjob each night or  
whenever the cron is set to run .. I forget when that is as I've had  
the same modified crontab for quite awhile now because I disable a  
lot of SUSE crons that are installed off the DVD.

-Ben
--
"We should forgive our enemies. But not before they are hanged."  
Heinrich Heine


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