RE: [newbie] Re: [expert] What the heck is this daily cron task?

2000-12-29 Thread John Hart
You may want to download the latest slocate RPM since it is vulnerable. ---gui is for wussies--- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of A V Flinsch Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: [expe

Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] What the heck is this daily cron task?

2000-12-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
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