> Sure about SuSE? One of the reasons I went away from SuSE > was locate and updatedb running while I wanted to work... This was the reason why they removed it some time ago ;-) . OTOH, they could have it installed but simply dropped the cron job... > Useless little tool... find and grep are enough... Well, I like it because it is much faster than find, especially on large discs. BTW: Right at the moment I let kat index my hard drive. I'm curious about the results. Best regards ce