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Re: updatedb.mlocate

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: updatedb.mlocate
Date 2022-04-09 22:40 +0200
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On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 03:40:41PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On Saturday, 9 April 2022 12:04:18 EDT Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity,  which sometimes
> > interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. 
> > Looking at the process list,  I see the above-referenced come and go. 
> > I didn't want this,  and it's not apparent to me how to deal with it.
> > 
> > How do I find out where this is invoked,  so I can get rid of it?
> 
> It used to be in a root crontab, where you could delay it to say 3 am.
> But I've no clue where its at in the later versions since systemd took 
> over.

It's in cron.daily.

unicorn:~$ ls /etc/cron.daily/
apt-compat*  dpkg*           man-db*   popularity-contest*
aptitude*    google-chrome@  mlocate*  spamassassin*
calendar*    logrotate*      ntp*      sysstat*

So, you could change when the cron.daily job runs, but you can't easily
postpone just one part of cron.daily.

unicorn:~$ grep daily /etc/crontab
25 6	* * *	root	test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )

I don't remember whether I moved that to 06:25 myself, or what.  But
anyway, that's where you would change it.

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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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