[CentOS] Slocate or replacement
Jim Perrin
jperrin at gmail.comFri May 25 01:24:17 UTC 2007
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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 It's been replaced by mlocate.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. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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