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From: 1hohens@rzcspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Frank Hohenschuh) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: locate command Date: 25 Sep 1996 10:33:13 GMT Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Lines: 15 Message-ID: <52b1p9$hoe@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzcspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!calliope.wln.com!info.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!news.sgi.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!03-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!sbg.ac.at!cosy.sbg.ac.at!voskovec.radio.cz!cs.tu-berlin.de!news.rrz.uni-hamburg.de!rzcspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg de!1hohens Hi, how should the "locate" command be used under FreeBSD? The man-page mentions a process, which updates a file. I found the file (I forgot its name and can't look it up right now), only it's 0 bytes long. Under Linux, there is an "updatedb" command to create this file. Under FreeBSD, I would like this process to start on bootup. Thanks, Frank.