slocate.cron (cron.daily) - UpdateDB

[Scott Ruckh]

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From: "Andrew Elliott" <Andrew.Elliott at istat.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 11:54 AM
To: <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Subject: slocate.cron (cron.daily) - UpdateDB

> The daily.cron job "slocate" is causing issues.
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> Does this even need to run at all?
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> It's an application server and users don't have command-line access.

It is a good tool for the administrator not necessarily for an application 
end-user.

It indexes all the files on the file system into a database so they can 
easily and quickly be located using the "locate" command.