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Date:      Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:02:04 -0400
From:      John <papalia@UDel.Edu>
To:        outlawtx@bga.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "locate" command
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990925170130.00958e20@unix01.voicenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990925160714.01350640@bga.com>

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You need to run /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb to build your database.  If
you've never run it before, that could be the reason why.

--John

>I can't seem to get "locate" to work.
>
>I type:
>
>locate mc
>
>and get back:
>
>locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database
>
>What's going on here?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Don James



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