<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.2.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> "updatedb" on the other hand can be disabled. Check out your crontabs, maybe it is set up as a cron job. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Okay, think I found it. In the folder " /etc/cron.daily " there are 9 scripts. One is called 'slocate' which starts updatedb, and another is 'find.noslocate" which is also related to updatedb. So if I want stop updatedb, do I just have to delete these two files ? And instead of deleting them, would it be sufficient to just remove the executable permission ? Or would that generate an error ? Vince </BODY> </HTML>