Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 07:46:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-like locate? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010040744160.52998-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010050811090.37137-100000@prime.gushi.org>
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> Hey all, I had an experience with locate on a linux system once, and I > noted that for regular users, it displayed world-readable directories, > whereas if you ran locate as root, it automatically had a separate > database which seemed to index the whole hard drive (including /var/log, > etc). Is there any way to get this functionality under FreeBSD? FreeBSD has a locate command also. You have to build the database under /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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