paulsynnott.com » locate http://www.paulsynnott.com/blog Did you get lost? What are you doing here? Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:13:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to fix: locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db’: No such file or directory http://www.paulsynnott.com/blog/2009/02/14/how-to-fix-locate-can-not-open-varlibmlocatemlocatedb-no-such-file-or-directory/ http://www.paulsynnott.com/blog/2009/02/14/how-to-fix-locate-can-not-open-varlibmlocatemlocatedb-no-such-file-or-directory/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:29:30 +0000 psynnott http://www.paulsynnott.com/blog/?p=48 In the first of my “How to fix” posts where I detail how I fix various issues I run into, this is a simple one:

[root@vps etc]# locate courier
locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory

OK, so the mlocate.db file doesn’t exist, marvellous.  How do we either find it or create it?
Answer: simply run updatedb

[root@vps etc]# updatedb

Now we can do our search:

[root@vps etc]# locate courier
/etc/profile.d/courier-imap.csh
/etc/profile.d/courier-imap.sh
/etc/rc.d/init.d/courier-authlib
/etc/rc.d/init.d/courier-imap
/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K30courier-imap
/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K85courier-authlib
/etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K30courier-imap
...

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