updatedb updates the "locate" database. Locate allows you to easily find the location of a particular file, without having to run a full "find / -name xxxxx". On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, 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? > > > Thanks, > > BP > > > ===== > Blaise Pascal > pascal256@xxxxxxxxx > > Please avoid sending me Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
