about the *locate switch

hybrid · 2007-11-05 22:52:55

Apparently with the switch from slocate to mlocate one now needs to be in the group "locate".
Since pacman doesn't point one into that direction I thought I'd post it here, I'm assuming that question is gonna pop up multiple times now.

iphitus · 2007-11-05 23:39:06

You don't actually need to be in the group 'locate' unless you want to manually update the db -- you can search fine without it.

Also.. the group was renamed, so if you were already in the old group, you should still be in it.

James

hybrid · 2007-11-06 00:07:54

That's not exactly correct, you already need to be in the group to be able to locate a file (as a user).
I'm not 100% sure whether I was in the old group slocae or not (I don't remember putting myself into that group but I used to be able to use slocate to locate a file as my user) but after the upgrade I was not in the new group locate.

Cerebral · 2007-11-06 00:24:01

I'm not in the locate group and I can locate files as a user no problem.

iphitus · 2007-11-06 01:35:39

Cerebral wrote:

I'm not in the locate group and I can locate files as a user no problem.

likewise.

somairotevoli · 2007-11-06 04:28:03

I get this error message now after upgrade

locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory

Cerebral · 2007-11-06 04:52:22

somairotevoli wrote:

I get this error message now after upgrade
locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory

have you run sudo updatedb yet?

somairotevoli · 2007-11-06 04:59:40

dur.......I should had paid attention to pacman's output message.........

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