updatedb

[eric at uxeric.compgen.com (Eric)]

For those of you who don't know, updatedb is a part of the GNU 'locate'
package which is a *very* handy replacement for find.  You can quickly
search for a file over the whole filesystem with wildcards

i.e.

$ locate *.pl

will return all files on the disk that end in .pl.  The 'updatedb'
program is run once nightly from root's crontab file.

This comes installed by default w/ slackware 3.0.0.  The crontab runs
updatedb at 7:40 in the morning. If your computer is never on at 7:40 in
the morning, the locate database will never be created, so you'll have
to run it by hand or change the time w/

	crontab -e

-Eric.