: [expert] What the heck is this daily cron task?
> What is this task:
>
> [chris@localhost cron.daily]$ less slocate.cron
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /usr/bin/slocate -u -f
> "udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usbdevfs" -e
> "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"
A V Flinsch wrote:
> It is building the database used by locate. Locate allows you to quickly
> find a file, or files with a given stirng int he name. It is pretty
> useful.
>
> If you find it annoying, you can remove the entry from the crontab. If
> you find locate to be useful, perhaps you can
> What is this task:
>
> [chris@localhost cron.daily]$ less slocate.cron
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /usr/bin/slocate -u -f
> "udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usbdevfs" -e
> "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"
>
> This annoying task looks around on my hard drive for half an hour,
> consuming 50% of
