Change time updatedb is run

[leon]

I moved slocate to cron.weekly. It works fine.

Gary Hodges <fsunoles at gmail.com> writes:

 | On 1/18/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
 | > Gary Hodges wrote:
 | >
 | > > On 1/18/06, albi <albi at scii.nl> wrote:
 | > >> Gary Hodges wrote:
 | > >>
 | > >> > I'd like to change the time updatedb is run.  I've figured out it is
 | > >> > run from a cron.daily entry and further investigation reveals the
 | > >> > following file:
 | > >> >
 | > ...  [anacrontab description]
 | > >>
 | > >> so i think that cron.daily will be run every day 5 minutes after you
 | > >> boot up your machine, correct me if i'm wrong
 | > >>
 | > >> for daily tasks at a certain time i personally prefer to use cron
 | > >> instead of anacron
 | > >>
 | > >> see :  man 5 crontab
 | > >
 | > > I assumed it followed the same format as crontab which doesn't make
 | > > sense now that I look at the weekly entry.  If a machine is running
 | > > 24/7, then when would it be run?  Maybe I'll move the parts that run
 | > > updatedb from cron.daily and make a separate job for them with
 | > > crontab.
 | >
 | > anacron won't run at all if you're running 24/7.  It gets kicked off at boot
 | > time, and determines when it will run the jobs that cron _should have run_
 | > while it was powered down.  Once it's run everything in its schedule,
 | > anacron stops.
 | >
 | > updatedb is a good choice for moving out of cron.daily for exactly the
 | > reason you gave.  It's a processor hog and if your system is up and
 | > unattended overnight, that's the best time for it.
 | 
 | Thanks for the comments Derek.  In /etc/cron.daily both
 | find.notslocate and slocate  run updatedb.  Can I delete one and just
 | run the other as a cron job?
 | 
 | Gary
 | 

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