Hi, On 08-Mar-97 Heikki Vatiainen wrote: >If you check /etc/crontab you'll notice that there's a line that does >something like 'run-parts /etc/cron.daily'. /etc/cron.daily has among others a >file called 'find' that includes the commands to update the locatedb. > >Like the name implies, files in /etc/cron.daily are run once a day, in my case >at 6:42 am. Cron, crontab, updatedb, run-parts etc. have all manpages that >have more info about them. > >If you want your locatedb updated now, just run /etc/cron.daily/find as root >and wait a little. I guess your locate database was never initially built.
Shouldn't this be automagically done when base is installed? I seems to get same error. Thanks, David >Pete Poff wrote: >[cut] >> like locate <what ever>. Like locate new.stuff. I get locate: >> /var/lib/locate/locatedb: No suck file or directory. Can anyone tell >> why? And is there a command to see how much disk space I have left?
