On 07/25/2007 07:12 AM, [email protected] wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
It certainly doesn't run for me ever. Always kind of a "that's not the
point" comment but I just keep wondering whenever I see anyone
complain about updatedb why the _hell_ they are running it in the
first place. If anyone who never uses "locate" for anything simply
disable updatedb, the problem will for a large part be solved.
This not just meant as a cheap comment; while I can think of a few
similar loads even on the desktop (scanning a browser cache, a media
player indexing a large amount of media files, ...) I've never heard
of problems _other_ than updatedb. So just junk that crap and be happy.
but if you do use locate then the alturnative becomes sitting around and
waiting for find to complete on a regular basis.
Yes, but what's locate's usage scenario? I've never, ever wanted to use it.
When do you know the name of something but not where it's located, other
than situations which "which" wouldn't cover and after just having
installed/unpacked something meaning locate doesn't know about it yet either?
Rene.
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