On Mar 3, 2015 4:11 PM, "Tony Su" <[email protected]> wrote: > > It looks to me like "locate" is already installed and available in a > default install (stable). > > But, it won't function without an updated database. > But, running "updatedb" (as root) apparently points to a read-only location. > > Should a default installation be required to set a custom path for the > findutils database? I was expecting that simply running "updatedb" > should have executed without problem. > > Tony
NixOS provides a service configured by services.locate.enable and services.locate.period. To make the updatedb command work out-of-the-box from nixpkgs rather than NixOS I'm not sure what the default path should be. James
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