At 02:40 PM 2/11/03 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> If "slocate" is similar to "locate" in its operation, updating the
database
> (using its analog to "updatedb") should be scheduled as a cron job
Indeed, cron.daily does have:
renice +19 -p $$ >/dev/null 2>&1
/usr/bin/updatedb -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e
"/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"
I'm not sure of the syntax here, but off hand this looks more like a
reprioritization of processes than a command to rebuild a
database. The updatedb file is a binary, so don't know if it has a
scheduler.
My setup here looks quite different, but I think that is just because
Debian uses /etc/updatedb.conf, which contains a lot of the stuff that your
setup puts in command-line switches. Sorting out the details of
command-line switches is just an RTFM problem, though, which you can do as
readily as I. But those entries are all filesystem types and paths, not
process names. The renice part is just so the database rebuild runs as a
low priority, background task.
In any case, /var/log/cron does not have an entry fpr updatedb.
It won't, becsuse cron (or anacron or whatever) is not running updatedb
*directly*. It is running a script that in turn runs updatedb. (On my
system, the relevant entry, in syslog (Debian uses different logging
defaults) is "Feb 11 06:25:01 waverly /USR/SBIN/CRON[11485]: (root) CMD
(test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily)". YMMV as
to the details, but start by checking /etc/crontab .
I do run continuously.
[thanks for the info, Ray, that my header is ok]
Haines
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