Troy Dawson wrote: > Hi, > I've seen the whole thread and it seems that everyone has missed what is > already there. (It's in the release notes and on the web page.) > https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/4x/features/tweaks > There is a program called > > SL_enable_slocate_cron > > That turns on the updatedb (actually, it makes slocate work, which does > the updatedb updating). So all you need to do is > > yum install SL_enable_slocate_cron > > and then slocate (which runs updatedb) will run. If you uninstall it, > it put's it back the way it started. Troy thanks for this information. Actually I hadn't come across the above link before. However I did [root@localhost ~]# yum info SL_enable_slocate_cron Setting up Repos sl-base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 sl-errata 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files sl-base : ################################################## 1502/1502 sl-errata : ################################################## 19/19 Available Packages Name : SL_enable_slocate_cron Arch : noarch Version: 1.0 Release: 1 Size : 2.6 k Repo : sl-base Summary: This modifies the slocate config file, so slocate run's nightly Description: This package changes the setting in updatedb.conf from DAILY_UPDATE=no to DAILY_UPDATE=yes This will allow the daily slocate update to run. [root@localhost ~]# The "Description" section in the above, mentions that it changes the DAILY_UPDATE value of updatedb.conf to "yes", however it is already "yes" in my installation. Does it mean that updatedb is already executed once a day in my system? If yes, when exactly? > p.s. By way of argument as to why RedHat did things that way, it was > already discussed in these e-mails, in that it saves the machine doing > those checks on potentially big file systems. > But what really irks me is that they turned off the 'locate' command, > which I use all the time, but left on the makewhatit, which enables the > 'man -k' command, which I use rarely. makewhatis still uses alot of > CPU and disk power, especially when it runs on my laptop. I would have > liked to have seen something similar with that. I do not know much of these, however there is a "locate" command (which looks like it is the same with "slocate") in my SL 4.1 installation.