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

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 02:32:31PM +0900, Josh wrote:
> On 08/02/06, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> wrote:
> 
Heh, you ARE having a rough week.  I quote myself (hrrm, sounds like a
song--no, that's, "I Touch Myself")


> 
> > 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.



To which Josh responded....


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


I'm satisfied with that paraphrasing.   <snicker snicker>

Serious point though, I haven't run Linux full time for awhile, so I'm
not sure where the script would be--in FreeBSD it's one of the
/etc/periodic scripts and by default, only runs once a week at 3:00 AM
or something.  So, if you needed to locate something you'd installed
after that, you would have to run updatedb (in FreeBSD
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb) for it to find the file. 

If you don't leave your machine on 24 hours a day, there's a good chance
that the cronjob won't run--it's usually set (on Linux as well, I
assume) to run in the wee hours of the morning by default.


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