Locate's a great tool. I've got mine set to run at 4am - and it runs for my
Win partition as well. Especially nice for string searches.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike MacCana
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 5:36 AM
To: Chris Aakre
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] What the heck is this daily cron task?
Its the locate database updating. At any time you can type `locate
[filename}' and instantly find the file. You update the databse where it
stores all the files and their locations as rot by doing `updatedb'.
Feel free to get rid of it if you wish.
Mike
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On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Chris Aakre wrote:
> What is this task:
>
> [chris@localhost cron.daily]$ less slocate.cron
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /usr/bin/slocate -u -f
"udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usbdevfs" -e
> "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"
>
> This annoying task looks around on my hard drive for half an hour,
consuming
> 50% of my CPU time on a PII 300. Is this needed? Can I cancel it? I have
no
> idea what it's trying to do.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Chris Aakre
>
>
