Updatedb Time

[Jack Jackson]

A light dawn, Derek. Thank you very much. I could not figure out what 
they meant by "Delay".

JJ

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Jack Jackson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>>
>>>On do, 2005-08-25 at 07:37 -0400, Jack Jackson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I remember vaguely some people discussing this a couple weeks ago; how
>>>>can I change the time at which updatedb runs? Right now it begins just
>>>>about when I do, at 7.30 am!
>>>
>>>
>>>Change it in /etc/anacrontab (updatedb is run from cron.daily via
>>>anacron)
>>>
>>
>>Thanks, Dennis. I still have some questions though. /etc/anacrontab says:
> 
> ... 
> 
>>I checked both man files and the only thing I see about time is
>>
>>  Job-description lines are of one of these two forms:
>>
>>           period  delay  job-identifier  command
>>
>>so I see that the period is 1, the delay is 5 - how can I convert that
>>to run at 3.30 am as opposed to 7.30 am?
> 
> 
> IF it's running under anacron, it doesn't run at 7:30 - it works like you do
> and runs 'delay' minutes after you boot up (or at least, after anacron
> starts).
> 
> However, anacron isn't running if the machine is turned on - so then you
> need to either remove updatedb from cron.daily and create an entry
> explicitly for it in /etc/crontab (with whatever crontab editor is
> appropriate on your system - I use kcron, it's better not to do it by
> hand), or modify /etc/crontab to do runparts on cron.daily at 3:30 instead
> of 7:30 (just change the 7 to a 3) - then _all_ of your cron.daily jobs run
> at the same time.