Re: how to locate files on my computer

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 08:24:54PM -0500, tom wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 20:13 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > > > > man find! Did you look at the manpage . . . the man page for 'find'? > > > > Patience can only be afforded those who take the time to look things up! > > > > # find / -name 'named

Re: how to locate files on my computer

2010-09-02 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:39:04 -0500, tom wrote: > I thought using the command: $ locate would work, but > nothing happens, even if I su to root. Any help appreciated. Is it a brand new installation that less than 24 hours old? Any way, run updatedb as root. PS. I recommend using mlocate p

Re: how to locate files on my computer

2010-09-02 Thread tom
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 20:13 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:00 PM, tom wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 19:44 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:39 PM, tom wrote: > >> > I thought using the command: $ locate would work, but > >> > nothing happens, even if

Re: how to locate files on my computer

2010-09-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:00 PM, tom wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 19:44 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:39 PM, tom wrote: I thought using the command: $ locatewould work, but nothing happens, even if I su to root. Any help appreciated

Re: how to locate files on my computer

2010-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
tom wrote: > I thought using the command: $ locate would work, but > nothing happens, even if I su to root. Any help appreciated. The locate command operates on a pre-compiled database. The database is updated nightly in the /etc/cron.daily/locate script. If you have created or renamed a file

Re: how to locate files on my computer

2010-09-02 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:00 PM, tom wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 19:44 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:39 PM, tom wrote: >> > I thought using the command: $ locate  would work, but >> > nothing happens, even if I su to root.  Any help appreciated. >> > Tom >> > >> >> man f

how to locate files on my computer

2010-09-02 Thread tom
I thought using the command: $ locate would work, but nothing happens, even if I su to root. Any help appreciated. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.