Re: cron.daily and updatedb

[Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs1@gmx.de>]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Dominique Deleris wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have the following problem:
> 
> I would like to have the locate db updated only once a week, and
> not daily as per default settings. I have therefore done the
> following:
> 
> - dpkg-diverted /etc/cron.daily/find to /etc/cron.weekly/find 
> - moved /etc/cron.daily/find to /etc/cron.weekly
> 
> However, my box keeps running updatedb each and every day, and I
> could not figure out why.
> 
> Any ideas around here?
> 
> I am running sid, with the following packages concerned there:
> anacron        2.3-7
> cron           3.0pl1-72
> findutils      4.1.7-2
> 
> Maybe anacron is the cause?
> 

Do you have an entry for updatedb in /etc/init.d?

Oliver
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