[X4U] locate command problem

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Fri Mar 25 18:51:30 PST 2005


On 03/25/05,  Kansas Territory <kansast at mac.com> wrote:
>
> I recently reformated my computer.. installed MacOSX 10.3 and all it's
> updates.  Has been up and running for several days now.   All seems
> well. Except I went to run the "locate" command from the command line
> and I'm getting this error :
> locate: no database file /var/db/locate.database.
>
> Any suggestions ?

Rebuild the locate database: see "man locate" for the correct command or
run the weekly maintenance task: sudo /etc/weekly.


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