RE: [newbie] Bizarre cron job--or what?

[Renaud OLGIATI]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Lewis Bishop wrote:
> Someone mentioned to me that unknown hard disk activity could be due to
> locate building it's index? Could this be it? Can anyone clarify?

If you have a cron job that rebuilds the locate database, it DOES take a
long time to run  ;-)

Just make sure it is run at a time when you are seldom at your screen.

Cheers,

Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
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