On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:22:08PM +0530, vivek wrote:
> however, in text mode, yu should login as root, then type "crontab -e"
> without quotes. this will open vi editor where yu can setup a task.

Hmm.

1. RedHat (and possibly other Linux distros) already have a cron entry
to run updatedb. In RH, it is /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron.

2. Instead of giving a vi(1) tutorial, you can also try

VISUAL=pico crontab -e

Binand

-- 
Russian Roulette with Unix:
while :; do kill $RANDOM &> /dev/null && break || sleep 1; done


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