updatedb no longer runs by default?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Sat Jun 10 19:56:25 BST 2006


On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 13:24 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > I'm running Dapper and it seems that updatedb no longer runs from cron.
> > Is this a bug or a local config issue?  Was it intentionally disabled?
> 
> It's not called updatedb, which might be why you don't see it. 
> It's "/etc/cron.daily/slocate", which would be part of the slocate package.

I already figured it out, for some reason cron was not starting on boot.

What tools does Ubuntu provide for managing which services start on
boot?

Lee




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