But to expand on this, I have had the cron update my db regularly but it would thne only contain my non-linux partitions. I would then do an updatedb --localpaths=/ --prunepaths="/tmp /var/tmp" ...etc. Bu tafter a while I would be left with just the non-linux partitions again. sounds to me like a permissions problem or something...am I close? -----Original Message----- From: Lenz Grimmer [<A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A>] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 3:26 PM To: suse Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] locate not working Hi, On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, dizzy wrote:

after a new install locate dosent seem to work i type locate filename locate: /var/lib/locatedb: no such file or dir ive tried update locatedb the man for locate works but dosent say anything about it not working ;)

Try "updatedb" instead, this will create the database. Bye, LenZ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Schanzaeckerstr. 10 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A">http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A</A>> 90443 Nuernberg, Germany - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e