On Thursday 05 June 2003 12:30 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 22:36, Bill Winegarden wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     I use slocate regularly to locate various files. I have recently
> > received warnings that the "slocate database is more than 8 days old". I
> > read through the documentation and the -u option appears to create a
> > database but my question is .... can I just run an updatedb command of
> > some sort?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill W.
>
> su to root and run updatedb &.
>
> I think the cron scripts were changed from previous releases because
> peeps where complaining that their systems were bogged down constantly
> during times of user activity.  Probably because a lot of night owls use
> Mandrake.
>
anacron was replaced by cron because of complaints of people powering on 
machines in the morning and having the 4:00am cron jobs kick off ten minutes 
later.  The updatedb one was particularly bothersome for many people.

-- 
Greg


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