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Re: 9.4 Linux: no locate database rebuild?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed May 11 13:20:59 2005

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 12:36 -0400, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Well, to me it's pretty useful- especially since I store lots of things locally
> that I need to find again.

I'm surprised that "find" isn't fast enough for that.

> I'm wondering why you find it annoying?

Because sometimes I'm up and working while the database rebuild happens,
and it slows the machine down a lot.


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