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To: goldtech@worldpost.com
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Subject: Re: unix locate cmd
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Date: 01 Oct 2002 14:42:45 -0700
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Lee Gold <goldtech@worldpost.com> writes:

> I'm trying to use the  locate  cmd to find all
> instances of .xinitrc in my system. I did,
> 
> root#  /usr/libexec/locate.unpdatedb
> root# setenv $LOCATE_PATH /var/db/locate.database

               ^-- Don't use "$" there.

But that's probably not your problem.

Maybe you have a /etc/locate.rc and it's messed up, or maybe one of
/usr/libexec/locate.unpdatedb's env. vars. has a bad value.  ??

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