Re: [expert] What the heck is this daily cron task?

[Mike MacCana]

Its the locate database updating. At any time you can type `locate 
[filename}' and instantly find the file. You update the databse where it 
stores all the files and their locations as rot by doing `updatedb'.

Feel free to get rid of it if you wish.

Mike

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On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Chris Aakre wrote:

> What is this task:
> 
> [chris@localhost cron.daily]$ less slocate.cron  
> 
> #!/bin/sh
>  
> /usr/bin/slocate -u -f "udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usbdevfs" -e 
> "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"  
> 
> This annoying task looks around on my hard drive for half an hour, consuming 
> 50% of my CPU time on a PII 300. Is this needed? Can I cancel it? I have no 
> idea what it's trying to do.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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> Chris Aakre
> 
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