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Re: updatedb.mlocate

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On Sun 10 Apr 2022 at 09:52:15 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> On Saturday 09 April 2022 01:22:08 pm Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 11:04:18 -0500
> > "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > How do I find out where this is invoked,  so I can get rid of it?
> > 
> > You may not want to get rid of it. That's the process that updates the
> > database for the locate utility, which is very useful.
> 
> Yeah,  it's useful if you change things on the system.  I don't do that all that often,  though.

Bear in mind it indexes /home, so you can use it for your own files.
Obviously, it's a lot faster than find.

> > I was about to add, think instead about adding a nice value to its cron
> > entry. 
> 
> There is some stuff about that in the script in question,  but rather than working my way through all that I just made that script not executable.
> 
> > However it look like mlocate is now handled by systemd, and I 
> > don't know enough to advise you on how to do that.
>  
> I don't understand the reason for so many things getting pushed in that direction.

It's far more flexible than cron and anacron. But cron is still there,
so you could move it back. But I think Greg's contributions to this
thread have enough information to make it straightforward for you to
change the time to suit.

Cheers,
David.

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updatedb.mlocate "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-04-09 18:40 +0200
  Re: updatedb.mlocate Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2022-04-09 18:50 +0200
    Re: updatedb.mlocate Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-04-09 19:00 +0200
      Re: updatedb.mlocate "sp007@caiway.net" <sp007@caiway.net> - 2022-04-09 19:30 +0200
      Re: updatedb.mlocate Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-04-09 19:40 +0200
      Re: updatedb.mlocate Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-09 20:10 +0200
    Re: updatedb.mlocate "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-04-10 16:40 +0200
  Re: updatedb.mlocate Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-09 19:30 +0200
    Re: updatedb.mlocate "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-04-10 16:50 +0200
      Re: updatedb.mlocate David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-11 01:30 +0200
  Re: updatedb.mlocate gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-04-09 21:50 +0200
    Re: updatedb.mlocate Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-09 22:40 +0200
      Re: updatedb.mlocate gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-04-09 23:00 +0200
        Re: updatedb.mlocate Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-09 23:20 +0200
          Re: updatedb.mlocate "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-04-10 17:00 +0200
        Re: updatedb.mlocate Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-10 05:30 +0200
          Re: updatedb.mlocate Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-10 06:00 +0200
            Re: updatedb.mlocate <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-10 08:10 +0200
            Re: updatedb.mlocate Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2022-04-10 11:40 +0200
              Re: updatedb.mlocate gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-04-10 12:10 +0200
                Re: updatedb.mlocate Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-10 16:40 +0200
                Re: updatedb.mlocate Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2022-04-10 16:50 +0200
                Re: updatedb.mlocate Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-10 18:10 +0200
                Re: updatedb.mlocate David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-10 20:50 +0200
              Re: updatedb.mlocate Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-10 16:10 +0200
                Re: updatedb.mlocate gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-04-10 22:40 +0200
                Re: updatedb.mlocate David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-11 01:30 +0200
                Re: updatedb.mlocate David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-04-11 01:40 +0200
                Re: updatedb.mlocate Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-11 02:00 +0200
                Re: updatedb.mlocate David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-04-11 02:20 +0200

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