[CentOS] Slocate or replacement

[Jim Perrin]

On 5/24/07, Mark Liechty <mlaccs at mlaccs.com> wrote:
> Still converting from Windows to Linux and had been feeling pretty good
> about finding files with slocate.
>
> It was in Cent4.4 but is not in 5?  Any good reason and is there a way to
> get it back?

It's been replaced by mlocate. No valid reason to roll back to slocate
that I can see.
>From the rpm package description of mlocate:
The 'm' stands for "merging": updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid
rereading most of the file system, which makes updatedb faster and does not
trash the system caches as much as traditional locate implementations.



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