From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxMgc-0006As-JY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:15:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CAE9E03AF; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:15:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57393E03AF for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:15:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so1336194ywm.46 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:15:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=UrM77z6UNZWkY6T8o31TQLuna+IqrlAVixecMhWd5Sw=; b=ke3JczHYB8hcMyDO2IurR3rpKBLhb44O5g7NOI4csjEzah3TWt4NIVAMRqw7zzmZDq RcLbRH60kT/RbuB8OWJRmgTU6WHNAB8u6KccRRWvtabOHOlYtfo5qjfV7TnR+zHn7TpS FAgGNacllBfc2njqpbBPyDHGgBECjqMiGYFgk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=FGfBxQafK11BhnkBeCrt8HxA9qyqWVQccYI0H6nhKoMThcyz/76SUEPmlnpClNh+CY AzidRwkSYuyXZvIdnVDHhFWOk0EHLvpAxtOXlNyVQLkx58AiDUI9d0c/02nl/jtQ+chd mtX9rUg4oI/Xn/2Kh+e8YQhRXWbu5hIHPq5EQ= Received: by 10.90.83.2 with SMTP id g2mr1132311agb.7.1225808110732; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:15:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.81.1 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 06:15:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38af3d670811040615s562c467dnfc52ea9f821d19a9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:15:10 -0200 From: "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" Sender: jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fcron driving me crazy In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081008031038.GA29106@solfire> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3b69c3400813a9a2 X-Archives-Salt: ffadcae5-e033-4256-b374-d698595adb94 X-Archives-Hash: 44b33d3a441cba9d20d064ee87099eb0 - Hide quoted text - On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 8 Oct 2008, at 04:10, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: >> >> ... >> every fcron is starting updatedb. I dont need this service on a >> daily basis. I am starting updatedb by hand if I need a fresh db. >> But I need a full fcron installed for other purposes, so I need >> to find the script, which tells fcron to start updatedb. > > If you don't know where the above script is... > >> I have tried to disable all scripts, but it seems, that I am >> not able to do so ;) >> >> I edited also roots fcrontab and my own fcrontab to not >> to start updatedb -- they are fixed. > > ... then why did you do this? What did you edit & what were the results? > >> My question: Where are other "things" installed, which >> trigger updatedb on a daily basis? > > /etc/cron.daily/slocate > > It is put there by sys-apps/slocate itself. You can move it to cron.weekly > if you prefer (although frankly, I don't know why this would upset you so > much). > I re-state what Stroller said. What did you edit? And, please read the cron documentation (if memory serves, Gentoo has a nice cron documentation). Also, try mlocate. It is an optimized implementation of locate; its updatedb is faster and less IO-intensive. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds