On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Michael Shobe wrote:
>I might have a possible explanation about the "at night" lockups people
>have been seeing. Most linux distributions ship with the slocate
>program which creates a database of all the files you have and their
>locations which can be retived with locate <filename> ...
>I know at least redhat has the slocate (the part that makes the db) on a
>cron tab that runs in the middle of the night. From what i've taken
>from this list, people's bp6's is significant disk activity. Slocate
>creates a lot of this...
>
Typically it's set to run at 4:02 AM daily.
Look in /etc/crontab and the /etc/cron.* directories.
Guy
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