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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