Re: The /sbin/update Daemon

Marcus B (mabs@netdig.com.au)
Tue, 5 Aug 1997 12:40:23 +1000 (EST)


On 4 Aug 1997, Rene Hoejbjerg Larsen wrote:

>Marcus B wrote:
>> The reason I mentioned it is because it is nearly as if it is reading the
>> whole directory structure (all mounted drives) as if I had done a 'find
>> /', I first experienced it in 2.0.29 and it can be unpredictable to
>> replicate, is it a bug?
>
>Are you sure it's not updatedb running as a cron job?
>
>Just a thought :-)

'tis true, still no bugs for me in the kerel (since 2.0)

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