On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 14:11 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > it's anacron not cron that does this, and in this case I'd actually just > modify updatedb to do this not cron. But that's a matter of taste... > > And there needs to be an upper limit on how long it waits for a quiet time > otherwise a mildly loaded server would never run updatedb at all Well, then there's makewhatis too... I seriously think something like this has wider application than just updatedb, which is why anacron should be modified and not every single individual utility. Dan