updatedb disabled?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Apr 18 15:17:15 UTC 2005


Miloslav Trmac (mitr at volny.cz) said: 
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:54:38PM -0700, Sean wrote:
> > updatedb is disabled by default?  Was this intentional?
> Yes, it was even documented in the FC4t2 release notes.
> 
> I think we should have something like an extended anacron that would
> run maintentance tasks (makewhatis, prelink, updatedb) if the computer
> is not running on battery, in addition to "always run updatedb" and
> "never run updatedb".  But I'm not sure I'll be able to work on this
> in time for FC4.

The current on_ac_power should do the right thing for APM/ACPI/PMU,
if you want to use that for keying off of battery state.

Bill




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