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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:49:34 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To:        Chimon Yeung <cyeung@sourcee.com>
Cc:        UNIX <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: locate error message
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011271449060.18310-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A242E88.26E28928@fremont.sourcee.com>

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> When I tried to use "locate" to locate the files, I got the following
> error message:
> "locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database"
> I checked the locate.database in that directory and it got nothing in
> it.  Is there anyway I can fix it?

	Yes... create the locate database /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
does what you want.

					Rick



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