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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:43:58 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
To:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        mkoivist@nortelnetworks.com
Subject:   Re: locate databse
Message-ID:  <20010216184358.A2563@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
In-Reply-To: <E1A4B2CC91EBD1118A510000F80836F803ECAB30@zwdld002.ca.nortel.com>;  from "Matthew Koivisto" on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:48:02AM -0500
References:  <E1A4B2CC91EBD1118A510000F80836F803ECAB30@zwdld002.ca.nortel.com>

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* Matthew Koivisto <mkoivist@nortelnetworks.com> [20010216 18:40]: writing =
on the subject 'locate databse'
Matthew> Does anyone know how I can update the locate database manually? I =
don't want
Matthew> to have to wait till it auotmatically does it in a week.


MANUALLY:

as root,
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb &

AUTOMATICALLY:

Put this line in /etc/crontab
# Update locate db every 3.00am
0       3       *       *       *       root    /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb



-Wash

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