I am getting these errors

bash: updatedb: command not found

bash: locate: command not found

and a couple more. chown, chmod ls, rm etc seem to work fine. what could be the problem?

well typically them commands are found in /usr/bin so try specifying the full path...i don't know why you would have to do this, but give it a shot..

strange problem.
It could be that /usr/bin is not in the path.

Is /usr on a seperate partition that "accidently" got umounted?

Look at:
mount
It should list what's mounted and where.

Cool

Specifying complete path doesnt work either:
bash: /usr/bin/updatedb: No such file or directory
I couldnt find updatedb or locate in my /usr/bin directory. Where did those commands go?
This is output for mount command:

/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
/dev/hda6 on /home type ext3 (rw)
none on /mnt/cdrom type supermount (ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)

find / -name locate -print

if that doesn't show anything, then install locate.

output of find / -name locate -print

find: /etc/skel/tmp: Permission denied
find: /etc/default: Permission denied
find: /etc/cups/certs: Permission denied
find: /etc/cups/ssl: Permission denied
find: /etc/webmin: Permission denied
find: /mnt/floppy: Input/output error
find: . changed during execution of find

How do I install locate?

go install the "slocate" package..i don't know what distro you are using so i couldn't put a link, but if you go look it shouldn't be hard to find..updatedb is also included in that package (i think)..

it worked when i installed slocate package. thanks

I find that I have to piggyback on this thread. I want to set my path permanently for different profiles, so I figured it would be as simple as editing .bashrc or .profile. (.bash_profile doesn't exist) Unfortunately, neither of these files contains anything about the path. I don't want to have to set my path every time I login...I've been looking through the forums and haven't found much. What am I doing wrong?

shock_ez

Oh I am using SuSE 8.2, if that helps.