What is the updatedb equivilent in SuSE 9.1?

SuSE uses updatedb.

do i have to install it??

It should come as part of the base install.

To find out where it's installed, open a terminal and enter this command: which updatedb. Bash should show you the path to updatedb.

You have to be root to run it...have you tried that?

Also see: man locate, because I think there's a parameter you can pass to that to do the same as updatedb.

that's what got me...i tried most of those things.

miked@linux:~> which updatedb
miked@linux:~> su
Password:
linux:/home/miked # which updatedb
linux:/home/miked # updatedb
bash: updatedb: command not found
linux:/home/miked # whereis updatedb
updatedb:
linux:/home/miked #

i'm not too sure what else to try?

Type locate. If the program runs, then you should also have updatedb, as they are part of the same package.
to search the system for the file.

When you become root by invoking "su", you only get to operate with root's permissions - not with root's environment.

To become root with root's environment you need to invoke:
su -

Now when you invoke "which updatedb" or "whereis updatedb" you will search root's default path instead of your own.

thank you idaho!

distro: SuSE 9.1 personal

I tried to invoke su - but same results

miked@linux:~> su -
Password:
linux:~ # which updatedb
linux:~ # whereis updatedb
updatedb:
linux:~ #

i cannot seem to use updatedb?

any ideas?

In SuSE 9.0 it was installed in /usr/bin by default, which should be in your path. If you can't find it with "which" then your path might be messed up...it's one of the basic parts of a Linux system, so it almost definately would have been installed.

On my Suse 9.1 system, updatedb is lives in /usr/bin -- J.W.

Well, after going without updatedb for sometime now I have to ask for more help.

Here is part of my /usr/bin:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16999 2004-04-05 18:58 tty
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6913 2004-04-05 17:09 tzselect
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46824 2004-04-05 15:56 udevinfo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10016 2004-04-06 06:17 ul
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2001-07-02 10:30 uncompress -> gzip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23523 2004-04-05 18:58 unexpand
-rwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1582 2004-04-06 11:42 uninstaller
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29281 2004-04-05 18:58 uniq
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17350 2004-04-05 18:58 unlink
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 162556 2004-04-05 18:30 unrar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10263 2004-04-05 18:25 unsq
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 109284 2004-04-05 18:11 unzip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51400 2004-04-05 18:11 unzipsfx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20060 2004-04-05 18:58 uptime
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14794 2004-04-06 14:21 us428control
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19165 2004-04-05 18:58 users
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13634 2004-04-06 14:21 usx2yloader
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7604 2004-04-05 18:10 utmpdump
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4376 2004-04-05 18:07 uuidgen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1488 2004-04-06 11:06 uz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14516 2004-04-05 18:09 vacation
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 470 2004-04-05 18:09 vaclook
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16138 2004-04-06 13:03 vcut
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 90616 2004-04-05 18:58 vdir
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2001-07-02 10:34 vi -> vim
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2001-07-02 10:34 view -> vim
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2001-07-02 10:34 vim -> /bin/vim
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2001-07-02 10:34 vimdiff -> vim
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1047 2004-04-05 20:03 vimtutor
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 27592 2004-04-05 18:11 vmstat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5919 2004-04-05 18:19 volname
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24736 2004-04-06 13:03 vorbiscomment
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12915 2004-04-06 14:21 vxloader


I don't see the executable there?

When I try to find the executable I get:

linux:~ # find / -name updatedb
find: . changed during execution of find
linux:~ #

Trying the locate command I get:

linux:~ # locate updatedb
-bash: locate: command not found
linux:~ #

My guess, since a user said that these where part of the same package, is that updatdb is not installed? This is from a fresh, default installation of SuSE 9.1 Personal. Why would it not be installed?

Any ideas? Which package should I install to get updatedb working?

Thanks!

You may want to do a search in YaST to see if it is installed. There is a security option setting on whether you want updatedb to run as root or as user nobody. Some people consider it a security risk to allow updatedb to run as root, which would enable locating files that normal users don't have access to.