Re: What cron entry generates mlocate.db ?

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On 2019-12-10 07:25, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-12-09 at 12:36 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>> It looks like mlocate.db is updated on command of systemd.  
>>
>> I want to have updatedb create two databases, one indexing my backup
>> device (/srv/UpdateDevice), which is a removable filesystem containing
>> a complete backup of (the rest of) my system, and the other
>> indexing  the complete system, including the backup device.  If
>> mlocate.db were created via a cron command this would be easy.  Since
>> actually the command comes from systemd, which I'm not familiar with,
>> it's not so easy.  Any hints?
> $ man updatedb
> ...
> EXAMPLES
>        To create a private mlocate database as an user other than root, run
>               updatedb -l 0 -o db_file -U source_directory
>

Right....

And for the process of updating the private database there is no reason why the OP can't use
cron to do that.  The current systemd process only updates the default database.

The OP could also create their own systemd units.  But I'm not certain that is what they would
want to do.  I don't think it would be that difficult.


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