On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Todd Lyons wrote: > ls -l /etc/cron.daily > ls -l /etc/cron.hourly > > Remove the msec link and you get rid of a small portion of the > clobbering. Remove the slocate link and you get rid of a good bit of > the clobbering. Remove the logrotate and you run out of disk space > soon. It's up to you really.
Would it be a better idea to make the users who want slocate put it in cron.dialy instead? And not have it there by default. I say this because the number one complaint I hear from people trying Mandrake is that the hard drive thrashing drives them nuts. The association to FastFind.exe is always made. And rightfully so, if you ask me. > The real question is, "what are you doing up at 4 AM"? :) This seems to be the number one misconception among developers, that everyone has their computers turned on during the night. Many "desktop users" don't. As simple as that. Which means that *all* the cron.dialy tasks kick in when they start working on their computer. Regards, Mattias
