Thanks for your help. On Wednesday 18 December 2002 09:48 am, Eric Lee Green wrote: > On Wednesday 18 December 2002 09:51 am, Michael Havens wrote: > > So it speeds up both locate and slocate? > > 'slocate' is the command that you usually find named 'locate' on a Linu= x > system. It's just a secure version of the original 'locate' command. > > [eric@elap html]$ which locate > /usr/bin/locate > [eric@elap html]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/locate > slocate-2.6-5mdk > [eric@elap html]$ which slocate > /usr/bin/slocate > [eric@elap html]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/slocate > slocate-2.6-5mdk > [eric@elap html]$ ls -li /usr/bin/locate > 321572 -rwxr-sr-x 2 root slocate 28120 Jul 17 10:39 > /usr/bin/locate* > [eric@elap html]$ ls -li /usr/bin/slocate > 321572 -rwxr-sr-x 2 root slocate 28120 Jul 17 10:39 > /usr/bin/slocate* > [eric@elap html] > > Same inode number, same command. --=20 :-)~Mike~(-: