Re: updatedb runs automatically, why?
From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 04/26/04
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:12:57 +0000 (UTC)
Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent> writes:
]On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:32:31 +0200, P.T. Breuer
] <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:
]> Doru-Catalin Togea <doru-cat@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
]>> On my RH 9.0 updatedb is run in the background a short while after each
]>> boot. I would like to know in which configuration file I can turn this
]>> feature off.
]>
]> Then you really want to look up the man page for "grep" don't you? Why
]I think you mean "locate". Grep only searches where and when you
]tell it.
He means grep to find updatedb or slocate in some files.
However what is almost certainly happening is that he has updatedb in
some cron file (eg /etc/cron.daily/) which is then run when the computer
is switched on. (eg in /etc/cron.weekly/slocate.cron)
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