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In a message dated: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:55:00 EDT "Derek D. Martin" said: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 >If you can't find a command, try > > $ whereis <command> > >If that doesn't turn it up, try > > $ locate command > >If it's on the system, one of these should generally find it. The >first looks in pre-defined locations, generally those places where >commands tend to live, to see if the file can be found. The second >looks up anything that matches <command> in a database of all files on >your system. An interesting caveat I've just encountered. Typically when I build a system, I install it, then walk away from it for a bit, but forget the system is on. So it stays up and running for at least a day until I get back to it. With my most recent install being on a laptop that I only use during working hours, the system hasn't yet been up more than 8 hours or so, and only between the hours of 8:00 and 17:00ish. Why is thins important? Anacron gets run between 6:30 and 7:00 a.m.! Anacron is what invokes the updatedb command which is what creates the database used by the 'locate' command. As a result, none of the packages I've installed over the past week have been 'located' because this cronjob *NEVER* runs. It never runs, because the laptop isn't powered up until well after that job is supposed to have run :) Obviously I can (and have by now) run this manually, and even changed the time at which anacron runs. But this isn't something I would expect most people to realize, *especially* if they're a neophyte! Hope this helps someone :) - -- Seeya, Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 (debian 2.2-1) iD8DBQE8vCyzuweSOVPxKO4RAttPAJ93VSJqVbw0JyK2ZPtfUVAqJeJgAQCcCpJC d5KYuFVTaAKHaofMpqRgUAQ= =o40l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
