Re: Disable makewhatis ?
Adam Thornton wrote: Does makewhatis rebuild the index from scratch each time? If not, then there's no real harm in leaving it enabled. If it does then you might want to run it by hand when you add commands. The other one you want to look for in cron is the locate.updatedb or whatever that rebuilds the 'locate' database (man locate). It's useful, but it reads a lot of the file system every time it runs! -- Jack J. Woehr# I run for public office from time to time. It's like http://www.well.com/~jax # working out at the gym, you sweat a lot, don't get http://www.softwoehr.com # anywhere, and you fall asleep easily afterwards. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Disable makewhatis ?
On Jan 22, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Bhemidhi, Ashwin wrote: We have noticed on our 2 z/VM Linux instances "makewhatis" is scheduled to run daily and weekly via CRON. Since this program is re- building whatis database, I am guessing its ok turn it off to save some CPU utilizations. Does anyone see a reason to keep "makewhatis" running? If you want indexed man pages, and you ever add commands, you're going to want it. Does makewhatis rebuild the index from scratch each time? If not, then there's no real harm in leaving it enabled. If it does then you might want to run it by hand when you add commands. Adam -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Disable makewhatis ?
We have noticed on our 2 z/VM Linux instances "makewhatis" is scheduled to run daily and weekly via CRON. Since this program is re-building whatis database, I am guessing its ok turn it off to save some CPU utilizations. Does anyone see a reason to keep "makewhatis" running? Thank you, Ashwin -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
