[ale] Nobody's busy

[Vernard Martin]

> The updatedb command is a cron job that runs periodically.  I don't
> remember specifically what it is updating.  It may be just the file
> location GNU database, checking for file locations for the "locate"
> command.  "Makewhatis" updates the man page index.  So your fine, the
> machine is doing what the distribution creators setup as regular cron
> jobs.  If you don't like it, you can always change it in the master crontab file.

Updatedb pre-indexes all the files on your system so that the "locate" command.
Can function. Usually updatedb is run by cron sometime in the wee hours of the
morning so that it doesn't interfere with normal user access.

Vernard
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