On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:22:10AM -0500, inode0 wrote: > > On 4/14/06, Ed Wilts <ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > IMHO, Red Hat got this wrong... Have a look at the cron job that's > > > supposed to generate the catalog and you'll see how they screwed it up. > > > By default, it's turned OFF (although in earlier releases it was turned > > > on). > > > > > > Edit /etc/updatedb.conf and set DAILY_UPDATE to yes. > > > > Of course there was a lot of yelling from the inconvenience to > > notebook users of having it set on by default. So Red Hat is sort of > > in a no win situation on this one. Either remember to turn it on if > > you want it on your desktop or remember to turn it off if you don't > > want it on your notebook. > > > > I wouldn't argue that on might be the better default though. > > I'd be willing to bet that there are more servers and desktops than > notebooks. 'nuff said. Even on production servers you don't want to have it running. We seldom touch those anyway once in production. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
