Locate

garrontmo · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Seattle, WA

I've used previous distros in which if I ever wanted to find a file, i could type "locate filename" and it would spit back every file that contained "filename". It doesnt work in gentoo. Is there something that I need to install, or is there a similar command in gentoo?

Utoxin · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 12:35 am Post subject:

You need to run 'updatedb' as root.

Alowishus · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 22

Yes, updatedb will do the trick, assuming you have already emerged the 'slocate' package.

Utoxin · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 3:40 am Post subject:

I believe that slocate is emerged during initial install.

febisfebi · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 6:59 am Post subject:

bbibber · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 8:05 am Post subject: cron

normally, the database is updated with a cron job (daily or weekly),so you don't have to do an updatedb yourself (the update operation can take a while on bigger systems). So you might want to emerge cron as well.

ElCondor · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 10:14 am Post subject:

well, slocate was not emerged during (my) installing 1.1a from stage2, just the "ordinary" locate. (Just if someone else might be missing it)

btw, fcron forgets to install its documentation in /usr/share/doc/ ... but thats for another forum

ElCondor