Trying to update the slocate database

[David Epstein]

David Epstein wrote:
> 
> My first command: slocate slocate
> slocate: fatal error: Could not find user database
> '/opt/local/var/db/slocate/slocate.db':  No such file or directory
> 
> My second command: which slocate
> /opt/local/bin/slocate
> 
> My third command: sudo /opt/local/etc/daily.slocate
> Rebuilding slocate database:
> slocate: fatal error: load_file: Could not open file:
> /opt/local/etc/updatedb.conf: No such file or directory
> 
> Can anyone help me get slocate going? Where is updatedb.conf supposed to
> come from, and why wasn't it installed when I installed slocate?
> TIA, David.Epstein at warwick.ac.uk
> 
I should have said
sudo periodic daily
instead of trying to cut into the middle of the action. This ran correctly.
Apologies.

David.Epstein at warwick.ac.uk
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