Subject: Re: email
Date: Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:13:07AM -0000
In reply to:debian
Quoting debian([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Thanks for that but i am still a little confused. What is the findutils
> package and which file in root/bin do I past in the line you gave.
Learn to use the Debian tools, apt-get, aptitude, apt-cache.
If you type man apt-get you will get the instructions as to how it is
used. If you can't get the man page, then you need to install the
man-db package.
root-Deb-Potato:~# apt-cache search man |grep man-db
man-db - Display the on-line manual.
VT1 root-Deb-Potato:~# apt-cache show man-db
Package: man-db
Priority: important
Section: doc
Installed-Size: 738
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.3.16-1
Replaces: man, nlsutils
Provides: man, man-browser
Depends: groff (>> 1.15-2) | jgroff (>> 1.15), libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libdb2 (>=
1:2.4.14-7)
Suggests: bsdmainutils
Conflicts: man
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/doc/man-db_2.3.16-1.deb
Size: 332898
MD5sum: 489f74ee7a13952860b55ea157d81380
Description: Display the on-line manual.
This package provides the man command. This utility is the primary
way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other utilities
provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the
manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual
page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and
zsoelim. This package uses the groff suite of programs to format and
display the manual pages.
VT1 root-Deb-Potato:# apt-cache search findutils
findutils - utilities for finding files--find, xargs, and locate
VT1 root-Deb-Potato:# apt-cache show findutils
Package: findutils
Essential: yes
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 202
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 4.1-40
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2)
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/findutils_4.1-40.deb
Size: 110180
MD5sum: a59ef9e0000d2ae959fd23df7a4cc0fc
Description: utilities for finding files--find, xargs, and locate
These utilities find files meeting specified criteria and perform
various actions on the files which are found.
> > do the findutils package
> > will get you the updatedb function, it is updated 'nightly'
> > by the anacron scripts. I use the following in my root/bin directory
> > to update after I upgrade the systen
This is a _file_ which I keep in /root/bin
To run it, after you have made it executeable, you enter dodb
> > #!/bin/sh
> > # dodb
> > # Ok lets update the locate database
> >
> > updatedb --prunepaths='/tmp /proc /cdrom /mnt' > /dev/null 2>&1
> I have used the > find / -iname \*Mail-\*
> but still cant find any of the files
In that case you should also install the howto packages
apt-cache search howto
doc-linux-text - Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in ASCII format
or
doc-linux-html - Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in HTML format
To get those 2 packages, doc-linux-text and findutils
You use apt-get
# apt-get findutils doc-linux-text (or doc-linux-html)
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