updatedb disabled?

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 4/16/05, Miloslav Trmac <mitr at volny.cz> wrote:
> I think we should have something like an extended anacron that would
> run maintentance tasks (makewhatis, prelink, updatedb) if the computer
> is not running on battery, in addition to "always run updatedb" and
> "never run updatedb".  But I'm not sure I'll be able to work on this
> in time for FC4.

Making the right solution a target for fc5 is fine, I have no
significant problem with seeing anacron extended as soon as its
reasonably possible.

Here's my problem.... why can't anacron and cron  use different cronjobs?
If the reason why updatedb was disabled by default even for cron was
because anacron was running it... why can't anacron just be told to
use a subset of scripts and let cron still do all the nightly stuff at
4 am.. if the computer is running at 4 am?  Could we just restructure
the cron.daily/ directory into two directories or something cron.daily
 and cron.daily.anacron/
and have anacron only from the stuff in cron.daily.anacron?


-jef