Updatedb Time

Rich Rudnick nickrud at sbcglobal.net
Thu Aug 25 18:16:25 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 07:37 -0400, Jack Jackson wrote:
> I remember vaguely some people discussing this a couple weeks ago; how 
> can I change the time at which updatedb runs? Right now it begins just 
> about when I do, at 7.30 am!
> 
The time that /etc/anacrontab jobs are run is set
in /etc/cron.d/anacron; anacron compares the time and date
in /var/spool/anacron/<job> to determine if the job has already been run
that day.





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