Re: Apache binary location? -locate command clarification

Just to clarify, 'locate' depends on an up-to-date locate database being
generated. It is generated by the daily log scripts, but don't expect to
find something using locate if it is a new file within the last 24 hours.

There are two ways to deal with finding new files:

1) Use the 'find' command (do man find for details) a find from the root
directory for a file with httpsd in it would look like this:

sudo find / -name "httpd"

This is slower, but there are lots of things to do with find including
executing commands on every found file. See http://www.osxfaq.com for a
great tutorial (where I learned about this).

2) Force an update of the locate database like so:

sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

This might take a while, but then you'll have a current locate database and
your locate command will work.

A little off topic, but sometimes, these UNIX clarifications can go a long
way.

dan



On 4/30/03 2:18 AM, "Tim Dancer" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> That is pretty useful, thanks! Both the "locate" and "whereis"
> commands work wonders...
> 
> Thanks again,
> Tim
> 
>> Tim,
>> 
>> When I'm looking for some binary I've found the "locate" command to
>> be very enlightening. In Terminal, type;
>> 
>> locate httpd
>> 
>> A whole list of httpd files with complete path will show up. Works
>> great for finding other stuff, too.
>> 
>> Blaine
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know where the apache binary is located? I need to know
>>> so I can install Zend...
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tim
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