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 re
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 re
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
