Locate command?

fvs

I just came over form Mac OS X and in my terminal I ran the cron manualy with this command, periodic daily weekly monthly, Because I don't leave my box on all the time, My question is what command in linux terminal will do the same? I can't seem to get the locate command to work in linux terminal, I was told that it updates through the periodic command.in Mac, dose it also need to update in linux? I used updatedb command and no dice.

shwaip

fvs wrote:

I just came over form Mac OS X and in my terminal I ran the cron manualy with this command, periodic daily weekly monthly, Because I don't leave my box on all the time, My question is what command in linux terminal will do the same? I can't seem to get the locate command to work in linux terminal, I was told that it updates through the periodic command.in Mac, dose it also need to update in linux? I used updatedb command and no dice.

1) you need to be root to run updatedb
2) locate works fine for me. You can also try slocate

Enverex

I'm confused, why/how would you be using "locate" to run Cron?

shwaip

I think he might be talking about having cron run updatedb, but otherwise, I have no idea.

drasnor

I use slocate. On Gentoo it has an initscript that handles changes in the location database. Presumably this initscript is included on other distros as well.

-drasnor