Alastair Scott wrote on Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 10:01:58PM +0100 :
> 
> It appears (from the existence of /etc/cron.weekly/slocate.cron) that the 
> slocate database, in 9.0 beta 2, is updated weekly and at extremely low 
> priority.
> 1. Am I mistaken in believing that, in 8.2, it was updated daily?

You are not mistaken.

> 2. I suggest that a weekly update is far too infrequent (certainly at cooker 
> time, but probably also for normal use).

Check the archives.  There was recently a VERY long thread on this
topic.  The decision has been made, and it's moved to weekly.

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