laptops and cron maintenance

[seth vidal]

> I know I use locate several times a week to find things, both system
> files and things lost in the rats nest I call a home directory.  Yes the
> rebuild of the database is annoying on either a laptop OR on a large
> server, but that just means a way needs to be found to maintain the
> database in a way that is less stressful to the system.
> 

and while you go work out the way to maintain the database, I will
gladly take a disabled updatedb, though to be sure I run: rpm -e slocate

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