On Sun 10 Apr 2022 at 09:52:15 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Saturday 09 April 2022 01:22:08 pm Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 11:04:18 -0500 > > "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > How do I find out where this is invoked, so I can get rid of it? > > > > You may not want to get rid of it. That's the process that updates the > > database for the locate utility, which is very useful. > > Yeah, it's useful if you change things on the system. I don't do that all > that often, though.
Bear in mind it indexes /home, so you can use it for your own files. Obviously, it's a lot faster than find. > > I was about to add, think instead about adding a nice value to its cron > > entry. > > There is some stuff about that in the script in question, but rather than > working my way through all that I just made that script not executable. > > > However it look like mlocate is now handled by systemd, and I > > don't know enough to advise you on how to do that. > > I don't understand the reason for so many things getting pushed in that > direction. It's far more flexible than cron and anacron. But cron is still there, so you could move it back. But I think Greg's contributions to this thread have enough information to make it straightforward for you to change the time to suit. Cheers, David.
