Re: [MLUG] Unable to use the 'locate' command

[Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

One little piece of advice: don't log in as root unless you */really/* 
need to. Use sudo or open a root terminal to execute commands as root 
instead as then your whole system isn't running with root permissions. 
Linux isn't easy to hack into compared at least one other OS, but why 
take chances, especially if you're running an Apache server or something 
that has a "presence" online. I also wouldn't run as root because if you 
goof up something as a regular user, no biggie, the worst you'd have to 
do is make a new account and you've got a clean slate. As root, you 
might have to reinstall the whole OS again.

Just my $0.02.

Phillip

P.S. I just remembered that KDE 3.4 won't even let you log in as root 
unless you change the line that says "Allow root login" to "true" in the 
config file. It will by default pop up an error message that says that 
root login is not allowed.

ahkrc wrote:

> Hi
>  
> Thanks a lot for the advice. Here's the info:
>  
> Release: 2005.1 (I'm not sure if that's written correctly)
> Yes, logged in as root
> I'm not running sudo.
>
> Thanks Again
>  
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> *From:* EMAIL:PROTECTED on behalf of Shawn Parker
> *Sent:* Wed 7/6/2005 8:32 AM
> *To:* MLUG Members
> *Subject:* Re: [MLUG] Unable to use the 'locate' command
>
> i forgot to ask the basics.
>
> which gentoo release?
> are you logged in as root?
> are you using sudo?
> etc...etc...etc...
>
> :)
>
> On 7/6/05, Shawn Parker <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > yea, but in gentoo, slocate isn't installed by default...it has it's
> > own little blurb in the handbook.
> >
> > make sure you've run "updatedb /" first to index your system.
> >
> > try uninstalling it (if it's there) and re-installing it.
> > emerge --unmerge slocate
> > emerge slocate
> >
> > maybe try
> > emerge --clean slocate
> >
> > to remove any packages, dependencies, etc...associated with slocate.
> >
> > or, just try a
> > emerge -pv slocate to see if there is a mask
> >
> > On 7/6/05, Dave McBride <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > > On SuSE, locate is part of findutils-locate. Pkg description 
> states it is part of GNU findutils suite.
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 7:49 am, Shawn Parker wrote:
> > > > is slocate installed? try a "which slocate."
> > > >
> > > > On 7/6/05, Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > > > > You could try to use "whereis" instead.
> > > > >
> > > > > ahkrc wrote:
> > > > > >Hi
> > > > > >
> > > > > >I have Gentoo Linux installed on my laptop, for some reason, the
> > > > > > 'locate' command is unavailable to me. There seem to be no 
> packages
> > > > > > that can be emerged to solve this problem.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Any help to solve this problem would be greatly appreciated.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Thanks.
> > >
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