Re: updatedb.mlocate
On Saturday, 9 April 2022 12:04:18 EDT Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes
> interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time.
> Looking at the process list, I see the above-referenced come and go.
> I didn't want this, and it's not apparent to me how to deal with it.
>
> How do I find out where this is invoked, so I can get rid of it?
It used to be in a root crontab, where you could delay it to say 3 am.
But I've no clue where its at in the later versions since systemd took
over. Run synaptic, search for locate, and see if properties>installed
files will tell you where the time entry is now. Its a pretty handy
utility so I wouldn't remove it, its keeping its database up to date so
you can do a "locate filename", and find out where in terabytes of data,
that filename might be found.
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> Masters" -
> Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies.
> --James M Dakin
>
> .
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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