-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 07 June 2003 09:47 am, Blaise Pascal wrote: > I forgot to mention in my previous post, with the same > laptop (IBM ThinkPad T23) and RH9, I sometimes hear > some HD activity when everything should be idle. I > ran TOP and found that UPDATEDB is running. What is > it, precisely? What can I do to prevent it from > running? updatedb is run from a dsily cron job, and you probably don't want to prevent it from running. It updates the database used by the locate command, which allows you to do things like: $ locate updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb /usr/share/man/man1/updatedb.1.gz /etc/updatedb.conf Hope that helps, - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+4fG2n/07WoAb/SsRAtLZAJ414YwcUerULxahkXwEgwzmEFaiyQCffQos 7idK+QF9jgrC+0m88TkPHaU= =e1WJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
