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Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ1 question about a file
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ1 question about a file
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Feb 6 09:44:24 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, PowerClicks wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know what is the file named "locatedb" within in the
> /var/lib directory? It is getting HUGE, can I simply delete it?
>
It is a database of all your files
It is updated as a cron job once a day.
You could delte it and stop the cron job
as long as you never want to use the command
locate somefile
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