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RE: which & locate


--- Alex Vinokur <alexv@scopus.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sylvain Petreolle [mailto:spetreolle@yahoo.fr]
> > Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 11:13 AM
> > To: Alex Vinokur; Cygwin Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: which & locate
> > 
> > 
> >  --- Alex Vinokur <alexv@scopus.net> a ?crit : > 
> > > 
> > > Administrator@ALEXVI ~
> > > $ which ls
> > > /usr/bin/ls
> > > 
> > > Administrator@ALEXVI ~
> > > $ locate */ls
> > > /usr/share/irc/help/note/ls
> > > 
> > > 
> > > locate */ls  doesn't contain  /usr/bin/ls ?
> > > 
> > > Why ?
> > > 
> > try to update your database (man updatedb).
> > 
> 
> I did it.
> $ updatedb

Are you getting error messages with updatedb?  If so, can you post
them?  Another person and I have noticed that updatedb is failing
when it reaches your $PWD, so we think there is a bug in find.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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