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.