	Splitting updatedb into daily and weekly
	Post date: April 21, 2006, 12:04 Category: Views: 2506 Comments
Tutorial quote: We all appreciate the locate command when we are such in a hurry we cannot afford a full and in-elegant find. What we like a little less, though, is the updatedb script consuming up all our disk bandwidth at each boot, summoned by anacron. Of course, this is only the case if you are running a "desktop" machine: since you turn it on when you need to do some work, then you long for a way to shorten the period of reduced usability forced by updatedb. Inversely, if you run a server that never goes down, and you successfully schedule your updatedb tasks late at night, then this article is not for you.

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