On Saturday 09 April 2022 01:22:08 pm Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 11:04:18 -0500 > "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <r...@rtellason.com> wrote: > > > How do I find out where this is invoked, so I can get rid of it? > > You may not want to get rid of it. That's the process that updates the > database for the locate utility, which is very useful.
Yeah, it's useful if you change things on the system. I don't do that all that often, though. > I was about to add, think instead about adding a nice value to its cron > entry. There is some stuff about that in the script in question, but rather than working my way through all that I just made that script not executable. > However it look like mlocate is now handled by systemd, and I > don't know enough to advise you on how to do that. I don't understand the reason for so many things getting pushed in that direction. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin