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In article <abm0ro$jdc68$1_at_ID-72169.news.dfncis.de>, Dragan Colak wrote:
> Gary Chan wrote: >
> It updates your locate database (man locate). It should run via cron.daily, > not at login.
But if your computer isn't running when cron would do the updating, it gets done the next time you boot up the machine.
You can delete the appropriate entry from your crontab to stop it from updating, but then you'll have to run it manually or forgo an uop to date "locate" database. That's not a serious problem, but "locate" is orders of magnitude faster than "find" at finding specific files.
-- -John (John.Thompson_at_attglobal.net)Received on Sun May 12 2002 - 16:27:39 CDT