> I guess it is anacron or cron. > Look in your /etc/cron.daily: all these scripts are executed once a day, if > you have anacron running. It updates your htdig, locate, man-db, etc. > indexes. If you don't need a certain index just remove the executable bit > from the files or disable anacron in the init scripts alltogether. > Thanks to both of you I looked in the cron.daily lineup and sure enough it is there, and updates all these things plus some. Mystery explained, and as I make lots of use of these utilities, well worth the investment.:)
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