Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate
From: Jon Masters
Date: Sun Mar 05 2006 - 16:48:30 EST
On 3/5/06, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 3/5/06, Jon Masters <jonmasters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm fed up with those finds running whenever I power on.
> You run updatedb at boot time?
No, but said box will catch up cron jobs on boot.
> Why not run it from cron at night like most people do?
That's not the point. It usually does. I'm interested to know if
anyone has written a daemon that can sit and just do this
synchronously on my desktop - then not only do I /not/ have to run
updatedb every day but I can also have a locate that is always up to
the minute.
Jon.
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