[wplug] Updatedb

Vanco, Donald VANCOD at PIOS.com
Mon Jun 9 09:08:05 EDT 2003


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Teodorski, Chris wrote:
> Please correct me if I am wrong (because I may be).....but Updatedb
> will run "on its own" occasionally to update it's database..... 
> 
> How is this controlled?   I ask because yesterday afternoon when I
> was trying to use my laptop, it practically froze up....and when I
> managed to get to a terminal to see what was chewing up
> processes.....low and behold it had decided it was time to updatedb..... 
It's a cron job.  IMHO on home systems it's safe to turn this off - as long
as you have the presence of mind to run updatedb every so often when you add
software or move a lot of content (docs, MP3z, etc).

Don



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