Updatedb - what is it for?

Sat Apr 30 17:58:51 UTC 2005

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DJ_Max wrote:

> 
> It's a feature for slocate and/orf locate.
> 
> So you can search your hard drive for file & directories. Every distro
> has it.

In fact, Suse Linux has slocate but doesn't install it by default. AFAIK
they had too many users complaining about their systems becoming slow
regularly without any visible reason (updatedb running). There might be
more out there but Suse is the only distro known to me that waives on
slocate by default.
Carsten

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