Is locate no longer available in 9.10?

[victorhooi]

Hi,

I seem to recall the locate command being unavailable in earlier versions (e.g. 9.3).

However, I can't seem to find it after installing 9.10 (as root or normal user):

Code:

[root@freenas] /etc/periodic/daily# locate

CORRECT>locale (y|n|e|a)? no
locate: Command not found.

And there doesn't seem to be any mention of it in /etc/periodic.d.

Did it get removed?

Or am I looking in the wrong place somehow?

 

[dlavigne]

That would be strange as it comes with a base install of FreeBSD. Any output from which locate? or an ls of /usr/bin?

 

[Kevin Horton]

I have the same thing on my 9.10 system, updated from 9.3.1. There is no locate in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. If I look in one of the jails, which have not been updated since the 9.10 update, I find locate in /usr/bin

 

[dlavigne]

Interesting...I don't see a ticket indicating that it was removed on purpose. If one of you decide to create a bug report at bugs.freenas.org, please post the issue number here.

 

[Kevin Horton]

Interesting...I don't see a ticket indicating that it was removed on purpose. If one of you decide to create a bug report at bugs.freenas.org, please post the issue number here.

I will not be creating a bug report for this, as I never use locate.

 

[victorhooi]

I've just filed this as a bug:

https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/14851

I can confirm that "which locate" doesn't return anything, and it's definitely not in /usr/bin.