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From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
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Subject: locate man page does not have any clues to how the database is built.
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>Number:         127
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       locate man page does not have any clues to how the database is built.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 14 04:20:04 1995
>Closed-Date:    Sun Feb 11 10:34:30 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:  Sun Feb 11 10:34:54 PST 1996
>Originator:     David Muir Sharnoff
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Idiom Consulting
>Environment:

>Description:

	The man page for the locate command does not give any clues
	to how the database that locate uses is built.  Turns out that
	if I had waited long enough it would have appeared like magic.

	I wanted it now, and had to go greping through /etc/*ly to 
	find out how it was built.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
	
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: mpp 
State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 11 10:34:30 PST 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed in rev 1.2 of locate.1. 
>Unformatted:


