> I am trying to write a program in c to be able to search a file
> for any pattern which will be given by the user at
> runtime.Basically a search tool.
> Could someone suggest a good way of doing this.I've heard of lex
> and yacc and also awk.Which one is better or is ther
Yes it seems the updatedb is not done automatically in RH up to 7.3.
Therefore, I put in my su (root) crontab (crontab -e) the following lines:
00 13 * * * updatedb -e /mnt/dos,/mnt/window
25 17 * * 1 mount /mnt/window; updatedb -U /mnt/window -e
/mnt/dos,/,/usr,/usr/local,/home -o /home/peter/
Sorry, Ray, I misunderstood you on two counts.
> First, updatedb *is* the command to update the locate database. I
> already told you this, so asking *me* again what command you are
> looking for is a pointless exercise.
> Not having slocate on my systems, I have no way to check this
> ... but wh
Haines --
First, updatedb *is* the command to update the locate database. I already
told you this, so asking *me* again what command you are looking for is a
pointless exercise. Either you believe I know what I'm saying or you don't.
(I did qualify this by saying I assumed that slocate used the
Re. my effort to update the slocate database and figure out why that's
not happening automatically.
> My setup here looks quite different, but I think that is just
> because Debian uses /etc/updatedb.conf, which contains a lot of the
> stuff that your setup puts in command-line switches.
Red Hat
At 02:40 PM 2/11/03 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> If "slocate" is similar to "locate" in its operation, updating the
database
> (using its analog to "updatedb") should be scheduled as a cron job
Indeed, cron.daily does have:
renice +19 -p $$ >/dev/null 2>&1
/usr/bin/updatedb -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,
> If "slocate" is similar to "locate" in its operation, updating the database
> (using its analog to "updatedb") should be scheduled as a cron job
Indeed, cron.daily does have:
renice +19 -p $$ >/dev/null 2>&1
/usr/bin/updatedb -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e
"/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/ne
At 10:05 AM 2/11/03 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
[Note: My question doubles as a test message. I had trouble with
aliasing, and so please make sure your reply to this message does not
go to an obviously invalid address. Thank you.]
The gnome-search-tool (RedHat 8.0) returns the warning:
"wa
[Note: My question doubles as a test message. I had trouble with
aliasing, and so please make sure your reply to this message does not
go to an obviously invalid address. Thank you.]
The gnome-search-tool (RedHat 8.0) returns the warning:
"warning: locate: warning: database /var/lib/sloca
