Re: [tlug] Flash Player V8.0 xpti.dat .......

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 08/02/06, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> wrote:

> On my FreeBSD box it's in /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/components.

/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/xpti.dat

on a Gentoo box, at least for the www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5 package.

> The locate command uses a database and is very quick--on a system that
> is on all the time, usually there is a cron job that will update this
> database.  In most Linux distributions, you can run the command updatedb
> which will take a little while (you have to be root or have root
> privilege) then type locate <whatever> and get the answer immediately.

Of course, in most Linux distributions, updatedb is run for you out of cron.

-Josh