Michel Leunen wrote: >What is the slocate database and what is > its purpose? slocate is secure locate. (more secure than locate, but I don't know why) )It's just an index over the files in your filesystem. Try slocate alsamixer for example. It will put out all files with alsamixer in it's name or path
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]$ slocate alsamixer warning: slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old /usr/bin/alsamixer /usr/share/man/man1/alsamixer.1.bz2 /usr/share/apps/kappfinder/apps/Multimedia/alsamixergui.desktop -- /Björn ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 <http://counter.li.org>
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