On Friday 14 Nov 2003 10:52 pm, Margot wrote:
Still puzzled though - even though 'updatedb' was the wrong command for what I wanted to do, as it is a valid command, why didn't it run? Even though it would not have done what I wanted, surely it should have done *something*?
Margot
It is only a valid command if the 'slocate' package is installed, and you are root.
Install it. It is really useful :-)
derek
Thanks again Derek - I used to have slocate installed for 9.0, but I must have missed it out when installing 9.2!
Margot
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