Hi,

I am using SuSE 9.3. When I try to use 'updatedb' I get the error message 'command not found'. I also get this error for the commands 'locate' and 'find'. I thought these commands were automatically installed when first installing the OS. I can't find any info concerning this problem...it seems that these commands should have been installed. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks

Brian

did you do "touch /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db" first before doing updatedb& as root?
if you did you might want to check if the program slocate is installed

Updatedb requires root privliges to run. Although 'command not found' indicates either the updatedb script is not installed, or it is not in your path.

First, have a look in /usr/bin for updatedb, that is where it is on my system. I would normally recommend you use loacte or find, but since they don't work, try 'which find' and which locate' Those two commands do not require special privleges as far as I know. On my system 'locate' is located in /usr/bin. Find is in the /bin directory. Look there to see if you have them.

To check your current path; at a command prompt type 'echo $PATH' ( without the quotes). That will tell what path you are currently using. There are a couple of approaches you can take at this point. You can edit your path, or add symlinks to the executable. Of course you have to find it, or install it first. I would suspect you do have the executables.

To change your path, once you locate the binary files, do the following;

PATH=$PATH:/path/to/dir-containing-find && export PATH

PATH=$PATH:/path/to/dir-containing-locate && export PATH

PATH=$PATH:/path/to/dir-containing-updatedb && export PATH

Keep in mind you need to su to root to run updatedb.

Command "locate" is part of find-utils -package and it can be installed easy through yast, but its not part of default installation.