locate not working

[Doctor Who]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Bryan Blackburn <blb at macports.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:54:36PM -0500, Doctor Who said:
>> I installed 'locate' from MacPorts not realizing that it was part of
>> my Leopard install.  The locate command was working for me at one
>> point, but now it returns no results. :-(
>>
>> tbook:~ who$ locate locate
>> tbook:~ who$ locate bash
>> tbook:~ who$ locate ls
>>
>> I have run 'sudo /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate' to update the
>> database for locate.  The 'locate' being run is:
>>
>> tbook:~ who$ which locate
>> /opt/local/bin/locate
>>
>> which appears to be the MacPorts version.  How can I get either this
>> locate working or start using Leopard's locate command by default?
>
> If '/usr/bin/locate bash' works then it's simply a path issue, and the
> simplest fix would be to just uninstall that port; note that I see a port
> 'slocate' but none just called locate, so if that isn't it you can use 'port
> provides /opt/local/bin/locate' to find the port which installed it.
>
> Bryan
>

Thanks, it was the findutils package and uninstalling it fixed the issue.