Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:21:30 +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: <20010220102130.G4233@cgmd76206.chello.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010220101431.E4233@cgmd76206.chello.nl>; from mavetju@chello.nl on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:14:31AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102200241530.5584-100000@prime.gushi.org> <20010220101431.E4233@cgmd76206.chello.nl>
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:14:31AM +0100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > 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). Btw: Maybe the rebuilding is much faster, the searching is not really... 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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