Subject: Re: What's up with "locate" ?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/15/2002 09:41:57
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Audun Arnesen Nordal wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, village idiot wrote:
>
> > Is the command "locate" set to only browse in certain
> > directories? I can not get the bloody thing to locate

> the database is recreated by cron in /etc/weekly, i.e. once a week.

Also, if the TMPDIR (or /tmp) directory used isn't big enough, then the
database will not be complete.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/