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[Erik Jakobsen <erik_ja@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles philip Chan wrote:
> Erik Jakobsen <erik_ja@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>   
> > While ago I always used the locate command to find instances I want to
> > look for on my system.
> > Now it doesn't work anylonger.
> >     
>
> Most likely the db haven't been built- IIRC is has been disabled by
> default for quite some time now. Check your values in
> /etc/sysconfig/locate. You might want to run updatedb manually for now
> if you don't want to wait for the cron job to kick in.
>
> Charles
>
>   
Thanks Charles.

I have run updatedb since a while too, but this has not given me the 
opportunity.

I have here some of the settings (default) from /etc/sysconfig/locate:

RUN_UPDATEDB=yes

RUN_UPDATEDB_AS=nobody

Erik
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