On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 18:33 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what this was (from the man pages I gather 'anachron' > > to be a cron/at like scheduler)? > > prelink is a new technology from Redhat that speeds up program loading. > > As the name implies, it prelinks libraries used by programs and the cron > job you see are the regular checks to update current system software > library dependencies. > _______________________________________________ Prelink is also available for other linux/unix variants ... and it doesn't hog resources after it is done :) On initial install, it prelinks the libraries ... which takes a significant amount of time. After it finishes, it runs at a predetermined interval. All major linux distros have prelink available. http://www.pk.edu.pl/cgi-bin/man-cgi?prelink -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050318/1b04e70a/attachment.bin