Locate command

Roger Olofsson raggen at passagen.se
Thu Jul 10 14:34:41 UTC 2008



Rem P Roberti skrev:
> Whenever I do a "locate" command on a new installation I get this
> message:
> 
> locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database
> 
> Can someone give me a heads up on how to fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rem
> 
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Actually, the very first thing I always do after installing a FreeBSD is 
add this line to crontab:

00 02 * * * /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

I guess I'm a locate-freak ;^D

/Roger



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