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From: 1hohens@rzcspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Frank Hohenschuh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: locate command
Date: 25 Sep 1996 10:33:13 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
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Hi,

how should the "locate" command be used under FreeBSD?
The man-page mentions a process, which updates a file.
I found the file (I forgot its name and can't look it up
right now), only it's 0 bytes long.

Under Linux, there is an "updatedb" command to create
this file. Under FreeBSD, I would like this process
to start on bootup.

Thanks,

Frank.