On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:52:09 +0800 Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yin Ming wrote: > > Hi, boys. > > Careful...some of the readers may be "girls". :-) Hope that's ture! > > > My box is pretty old, so running a updatedb (for locate DB) is a bit > > slow and takes too much cpu time. I seldom install something or move > > files, and, in fact, I rarely use locate. So it's not necessary to run > > updatedb every day. > > > > I search /etc/rc.d, and those profiles in /etc, but didn't find anyone > > calling updatedb, so I don't know how to make it not run everyday > > automatically, or change its frequency to a week once. Where can I set > > its schedule of updatedb? > > Have a look in /etc/cron.daily. The slocate.cron scipt can be relocated > to /etc/cron.weekly. Oh, it's there. I thought it's in /var/spool/cron..., but nothing found., A BSD book taught me cron's schedule files were there. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
