Hi,
> Michael Mansour wrote:
> > If you really want to run an updatedb on each boot, I suggest you put it into
> > your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file which gets read as the last rc file after all
> > other services are started.
> >
> > But I personally wouldn't do that.
>
> Thank you for this information Michael. Actually it is about my home
> PC, and it takes some time during boot indeed. However I was doing a
> manual updatedb before searching for some file, each time I wanted
> to perform such a search. Is there some other alternative, apart
> from not using indexing?
Yes, find can be used to find files throughout your disk(s).
Do a "man find" to find out it's options and how you can use it.
Commands like:
# find -name <anyname> /whateverdirectory
or
# find /<whateverdirectory> -print | grep <anyname>
are things I commonly use.
Michael.