[BBLISA] Slocate cron job?

Edward Ned Harvey bblisa2 at nedharvey.com
Thu Jun 26 23:03:24 EDT 2008


> Does anyone have a cron job set up to regularly update the slocate
> database on Linux?  Any problems or concerns?
> 
> We have a user request to turn it on, and we're thinking, gee, maybe we
> should turn it on everywhere.

I turn this on as part of standard procedure for RHEL/Centos 4
installations.
Edit /etc/updatedb.conf and change DAIL_UPDATE to yes

I do this on all machines.  Users have only been happy about it.




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