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On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > On 07/25/2007 07:12 AM, david@lang.hm wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > >> > It certainly doesn't run for me ever. Always kind of a "that's not the >> > point" comment but I just keep wondering whenever I see anyone complain >> > about updatedb why the _hell_ they are running it in the first place. If >> > anyone who never uses "locate" for anything simply disable updatedb, the >> > problem will for a large part be solved. >> > >> > This not just meant as a cheap comment; while I can think of a few >> > similar loads even on the desktop (scanning a browser cache, a media >> > player indexing a large amount of media files, ...) I've never heard of >> > problems _other_ than updatedb. So just junk that crap and be happy. >> >> but if you do use locate then the alturnative becomes sitting around and >> waiting for find to complete on a regular basis. > > Yes, but what's locate's usage scenario? I've never, ever wanted to use it. > When do you know the name of something but not where it's located, other than > situations which "which" wouldn't cover and after just having > installed/unpacked something meaning locate doesn't know about it yet either? which only finds executables that are in the path. I commonly use locate to find config files (or sample config files) for packages that were installed at some point in the past with fairly default configs and now I want to go and tweak them. so I start reading documentation and then need to find out where $disto moved the files to this release (I commonly am working on machines with over a half dozen different distro releases, and none of them RedHat) David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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