On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 09:07, Michael Fratoni wrote: > 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: And since your using a laptop and it's probably being turned on and off, and mostly off at night, there is a service started at boot, that runs cron jobs that were missed on their scheduled date/time and they are now running to catch up. I think "anacron" is the name of the service, not sure. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?" - Bob Monkhouse
