Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:14:31 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things linux has (suggestion/question). Message-ID: <20010220101431.E4233@cgmd76206.chello.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102200241530.5584-100000@prime.gushi.org>; from danm@prime.gushi.org on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:59:56AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102200241530.5584-100000@prime.gushi.org>
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:59:56AM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > 1. Linux has a locate utility called slocate, which (A) rebuilds its > database MUCH faster and (B) allows you to search with your privileges > (for example, if you type locate as root, you can search the whole drive, > whereas another user would not be able to see in things like user > homedirs, etc). Well, Debian doesn't have it by default (sorry, don't have friends with other distributions :-) and I looked at slocate a little (ftp://ftp.mkintraweb.com/pub/linux/slocate/) but couldn't get it compiled within five minutes *mgrin* main.c has some quirks regarding MOUNT_xx which is called VT_xx, you need to put a * somewhere in a variable declaration, need to include <fts.h> instaed of "sl_fts.h" and place the #define of opendir2 a little bit lower. So yeah, I got it compiled now after fifteen minutes. gmake install also gives so problems, it tries to execute addgroup. Okay, if you do it manual it will work better :-) So yeah, it's now scratching my harddisk for information, so it can be done *mgrin* and it can be put in the ports-collection, but don't expect it to be part of the base-operating system because of its GNU-license. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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