in reply to Searching my network
You could just keep your resume in the same spot and look
for it there when you need it :-)
But really, a locate command that spans multiple machines
is a good idea. It would come in handy for me. Pretty
simple idea, take the locate program and add an additional
field to show which machine the file lives on. The hard
part is going to be deciding how you want to store that
info. The searches will need to run on multiple machines,
so you'll either need a daemon running on each, or else
code a way to login and scan or maybe scan only the
available shares.
Then you have to decide whether you want to propagate that
info to each machine so you can run a search from any
machine, or you could store all the results in a single
database on one machine. Maybe put a cgi front end on it
so you could use a browser on any machine and query for
your file.
Now you're going to a known location to find something. It
may just be easier to put your resume in one location and
go back to look for it there when you need it :-)