On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 14:11 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
it's anacron not cron that does this, and in this case I'd
actually just
modify updatedb to do this not cron. But that's a matter of taste...
And there needs to be an upper limit on how long it waits for a quiet time
otherwise a mildly loaded server would never run updatedb at all
Well, then there's makewhatis too... I seriously think something like
this has wider application than just updatedb, which is why anacron
should be modified and not every single individual utility.
Dan