Re: updatedb.mlocate
On Saturday 09 April 2022 12:39:45 pm Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 11:04:18AM -0500, 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?
> >
> You can uninstall the mlocate package. Or, you can edit
> /etc/cron.daily/mlocate and comment out the cron entry. That would
> leave the package installed, but you would need to keep the database
> updated manually.
Okay, I found the script by that name and made it not executable. We'll see if that works.
What I'd really like to know is, why is this happening now when it wasn't happening before? It probably changed after my last round of updating things...
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