On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:06:53PM +0100, Frederik Himpe wrote: > Could the slocate cronscript in /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron be changed > to exclude directories in /mnt: [...] > > This will stop many complaints from people asking why there hard drive > is trashing and slowing down the system just after they boot to > Mandrake.
A better option would be to have the slocate updater run with lower priority (nice --19 ?) and to have it wait for 10 minutes or more after boot to start up. I *want* /mnt/windows indexed, who wouldn't? Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Core staff contact, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net www.valinor.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org Author, Open Source XML Database Toolkit, Wiley August 2000 Co-author: The XML Specification Guide, Wiley 1999; Mastering XML, Sybex 2001
