James Carlson wrote: > Jim Li writes: >> Q4. Suggested that each locate implementation has an update service in >> smf(5) >> and a cron job. >> >> Currently we are focusing on enriching the open source projects which can >> be used on Solaris. Don't have enough resources to improve the projects or >> provide extension function. >> >> In Linux distribution, slocate use anacron to update the index file >> periodically. Anacron is a little bit different from cron job. It >> executes commands at intervals not at specifed time. It does not >> assume that the system is running continuously. > > If I understand what you're saying, that seems broken to me. > > It sounds like you're saying that slocate works better on Linux today > than it will on OpenSolaris once this project integrates because Linux > has Anacron and OpenSolaris does not, and we provide no alternatives. > The user will be forced to roll his own solution to the problem -- > either using slocate in a cron job, writing a script using sleep(1), > or porting over Anacron on his own to fill the gap.
About this small issue of the case: this same limitation applies to any number of housekeeping tasks managed by cron; if you only have your machine on at certain times, some things don't get done. <shrug> I don't see why slocate's database is any different, really.
