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[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:22:10AM -0500, inode0 wrote:
> > On 4/14/06, Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org> wrote:
> > > IMHO, Red Hat got this wrong...  Have a look at the cron job that's
> > > supposed to generate the catalog and you'll see how they screwed it up.
> > > By default, it's turned OFF (although in earlier releases it was turned
> > > on).
> > >
> > > Edit /etc/updatedb.conf and set DAILY_UPDATE to yes.
> > 
> > Of course there was a lot of yelling from the inconvenience to
> > notebook users of having it set on by default. So Red Hat is sort of
> > in a no win situation on this one. Either remember to turn it on if
> > you want it on your desktop or remember to turn it off if you don't
> > want it on your notebook.
> > 
> > I wouldn't argue that on might be the better default though.
> 
> I'd be willing to bet that there are more servers and desktops than
> notebooks.  'nuff said.

Even on production servers you don't want to have it running. We seldom 
touch those anyway once in production.

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