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From: robert@il.ft.hse.nl (robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: locate command
Date: 27 Sep 1996 12:56:52 +0200
Organization: LSD...melts in your mind, not in your hand
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1hohens@rzcspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Frank Hohenschuh):
>Under Linux, there is an "updatedb" command to create
>this file. Under FreeBSD, I would like this process
>to start on bootup.
The program is called locate.updatedb, and usually resides in
/usr/libexec. If you want to run it on bootup, put it in /etc/rc.local,
but I think it will be in your /etc/weekly already.
robert