[CLUE-Tech] Suse questions

Chris Tubutis ctubutis at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 15 18:32:11 MDT 2004


On 15 Apr, Mike Staver wrote:

> Without my ability to search using locate, or slocate, I have no idea 
> how I'm supposed to search the file system for files I'm looking for.

Oddly enough, you answered your own question.

$ man find

The locate utility is a GNU thing, it doesn't come from traditional UNIX
environs. The slocate utility looks to be a modified locate utility
written by a guy named Kevin Lindsay.

Suse might use xntp instead of rdate, I really have no idea here.

ct



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