Slocate 3.1 - indexes files on your system, for searching

[GuestToo]

Slocate 3.1

Secure locate provides a secure way to index
and quickly search for files on your system.

There are other slocate packages ... for example:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/System_Utilities/
but that one is version 2.7

Note: this installs in my-applications/bin, where hopefully, Puppy will leave the files alone. If have another older version installed in /usr, the older version will be found first and used. You would need to uninstall the older version for the newer version to be found.

[Lobster]

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sh-3.00# updatedb
updatedb: warning: Could not find the group: slocate in the /etc/group file.
updatedb: fatal error: This is a result of the group missing or a corrupted group file.
sh-3.00# 

this is what is in the corrupted group file:

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root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
tty:x:2:
ppp:x:200:
users:x:500:
nobody:x:65534:
guest:x:501:
spot:x:502:spot
bin::2:root,bin,daemon
audio::17:

[GuestToo]

sorry, i forgot that slocate expects there to be an slocate group ... you can just type this:

tinylogin addgroup -g3 slocate

and slocate should now work

it won't work for user "spot" ... you would need to add the slocate group to spot and set up the permissions the way it tells you to do, in the readme file

i should have made the installer do it automatically

i don't remember how to add a group to a user using tinylogin ... you can just edit /etc/group and change:
spot502:spot
to:
spot502:spot,slocate

but you don't need to do that to run locate as root ... you need to do that to run locate as spot