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Lesson 2: Assignment 2updating your systems locate databaseNOTE to "day one" students: you may not have done this step because I only added it on day 2. Sorry about that. It's really simple though. We've downloaded a bunch of new tools and pulled the Vim source from the mercurial repository, so it's time to update the system's locate or slocate database: sudo updatedb This may take some time to complete depending on when it was last run and how large of a system installation you have. HOMEWORK: this should be really straightforward. Do NOT submit homework unless something didn't work right for you and you need some help.Homework Submissions11 total
Only thing of interest was I needed to sudo updatedb on Ubuntu brendan@punga:~/code/vim$ updatedb updatedb: can not open a temporary file for `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db' brendan@punga:~/code/vim$ sudo updatedb [sudo] password for brendan: brendan@punga:~/code/vim$ locate if_python.c /home/brendan/code/vim/src/if_python.c No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
alredy, to now we go very well, it is easy listo!, hasta ahora vamos bien, esto esta facil :) No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
On OS X it's sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb. No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
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/mercurial/vim# sudo updatedb No comments. Sign up or log in to comment 
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Done. I should add that thus far I have been working on a Windows/ Cygwin system, and so far so good. Comments:
Outstanding! I don't see any reason why, with Cygwin, a student on Windows would have any problems with this class. Please do let me know when there are things you have to do differently because of the platform discrepancies. For example, an upcoming assignment will ask about startup script processing; please focus on how it works for your environment and post the details. Welcome aboard! 
Done. I think it's a good idea to make a habit of doing this anytime a lot of new files are added to the filesystem Comments:
Agreed. I have an anacron job that runs updatedb for me every day. Might be overkill but hey, it's a computer... it doesn't complain when I give it too much tedious work to do.
edit: my system has an anacron job that runs updatedb daily. It's now part of Ubuntu. Thinking back, it's been many years since I've had to manually add an 'updatedb' job to cron. 
anacron is just a cron deamon, the common linux term is cron job =)
Anacron's quite a bit different than cron. But this isn't a forum for that discussion; the subject here is periodically running updatedb Welcome aboard; I look forward to your contributions to the source code exploratories. 
I am doing these assignments on a minimal install of Debian 5.0 Lenny, and updatedb was not available. I installed locate, Comments:
Awesome. I find locate totally necessary; seems a shame people have decided to omit it from 'minimal' distros. I'll guess they left 'find' in, right? By the same logic they should include 'locate'. They each have their purpose.
Yes, 'find' is available on the minimal debian distro. |
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