slocate for OpenSolaris [LSARC/2008/447 FastTrack timeout 07/22/2008]

[James Carlson]

Shi-Ying Irene Huang writes:
>         SUNWslocate                    Uncommitted        package name
>         /usr/bin/slocate               Volatile           CLI
>         /usr/bin/updatedb              Volatile           CLI

I think you may have missed at least /etc/updatedb.conf and
/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db.  There may be other interfaces associated
with this package; I'm not positive, as it's been a while since I used
it.

Isn't updatedb normally used only in a cron job entry?  Should it be
on every user's path, especially with that really unfortunate,
much-too-generic name?

... and then there's locate(1) versus slocate(1) versus mlocate(1).
Aren't Linux distributions dropping slocate over time?

>         /usr/lib/libast.so.1  private      2006/550
>         (SONMAE libast.so.1)

That comes from ON and I don't see a contract.  Where's this software
integrating?

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