[wellylug] multidots

[Arnim Littek]

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:12:13 +1200 (NZST) David Antliff <dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > Be sure to keep locate up-to-date then (updatedb).
> That's a good point - most distros run updatedb regularly (daily, 
> sometimes weekly) by default, but it's important to realise that locate 
> may not reflect the current state of the filesystem accurately.

Two points here.  Almost every version of locate that was not updated via a cron job would bleat at me if it was more than a week old (a good prod to fix my cron setup).  And secondly, the only time you need a bleeding edge locate database is if you are looking for a file that was made recently, but before the last time updatedb was run.  Locate is still inappropriate if updatedb runs in the wee hours and you're looking for a file that you think your compiler made for you this morning...

FWIW,

Arnim.