[CLUE-Tech] Suse questions

[Mike Staver]

Thanks to everybody for the suggestions. I ended up installing the 
findutils-locate package, and that gave me the use of updatedb and 
locate again, so I'm happy.

About the time issue - instead of using rdate, I did some research on 
xntp as suggested, and I am now using that.  I ended up setting up a 
cron job like this:

MAILTO=""
0 03 * * * /etc/init.d/xntpd restart
MAILTO=""
0 03 * * * /sbin/clock -w

I have no idea if I need to restart xntpd once a day, but I find that if 
I don't sync up my servers daily, they drift a lot.  I don't understand 
how a computer clock can drift so much, but I have on server that gets 
off by 5 minutes or more a day!  If left unchecked, it becomes a huge 
problem. I'm starting to think the motherboard is defective...

Kevin Lane wrote:

> There are two things you can do.
> 
> 1. install the updatedb package
>     That will give you the same functionality as on RH
> 
> 2. use command line tools, although not as quick as the
>     updatedb (because updatedb keeps the data in a data file)
> 
> a typical command line string would be:
> 
> sudo find / -name <filename> -print
> 
> on linux the -print is optional, I tend to put it in there as other
> Unix variants do not automatically use the -print option.
> You can also use wildcards in the <filename>, and also double-quotes
> for special circumstances.
> 
> sudo find / -name "some file*" -print
> 
> use: man find
> to get more information. The find command is VERY powerful and
> can do much more than just print out the full path of the file it finds!
> 
> Kevin Lane
> 
> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 14:31, Mike Staver wrote:
> 
>>/I have a few more command based SuSE questions.  Again, I'm working with 
>>9.0 and on RedHat, the following commands work great:
>>
>>updatedb
>>locate somefile
>>/usr/bin/rdate -s time.nist.gov
>>
>>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.  I 
>>also can't seem to locate the rdate command, which I found to be very 
>>handy with Red Hat to get my servers all synced up at the same time. 
>>Does anyone who uses SuSE know what the equivalents would be? Most of 
>>the documentation for SuSE I have found on line is in German, and that 
>>doesn't do a lot for me./
>>

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                                 -Mike Staver
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