cron/anacron

[Frank McCormick]

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On Thu, 11 May 2006 11:07:07 -0300
Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Frank McCormick wrote:
> 
> >> 
> >   Only one more question: what are the files in /var/spool/cron/crontabs
> >   used for ??? Are they the jobs for individual users? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >   If so, why does my 
> >   updatedb never get updated ? There is a job in there for me to updatedb
> >   and according to the man the syntax is correct.

> 
> You _personally_ run updatedb?  Generally it's run by root
> from /etc/cron.daily/slocate (which anacron does execute, and it visibly
> stalls my laptop 5 minutes after boot).  While I'm sure there are instances
> that you would want to run against some particular tree, I'm not sure the
> average user _can_.

   No the job is assigned to root, but apparently never runs because it seems whenever I use the db by looking for a file the system says warning the db is **whatever** days old. Apparently the only time it gets updated is when I run sudo updatedb.   


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Cheers

Frank

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