> I know I use locate several times a week to find things, both system > files and things lost in the rats nest I call a home directory. Yes the > rebuild of the database is annoying on either a laptop OR on a large > server, but that just means a way needs to be found to maintain the > database in a way that is less stressful to the system. > and while you go work out the way to maintain the database, I will gladly take a disabled updatedb, though to be sure I run: rpm -e slocate -sv