[lug] updatedb

[David L. Anselmi]

Gary Hodges wrote:
[...]
> I changed the hour to 5 from 6 for the cron.daily line, but when I came 
> in this morning updatedb is running.  In the past updatedb wouldn't run 
> for more than about 30 minutes after I arrived so I figured moving its 
> start time back an hour would work.  Am I going about this the right way?

This should have worked assuming you're using Vixie cron (no need to 
restart anything).  What do your logs say about when cron.daily was run?

You can put something in the slocate script to produce output.  That 
should show up in an email or your logs so you can verify what time it 
started.

Dave