* Steve Shockley (steve.shock...@shockley.net) wrote: > On 1/24/2010 2:48 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > >Cron runs the weekly update script every Saturday at 3:30am. If you > >use a laptop or other desktop, your computer probably isn't on then. > >So the locate and whatis databases never get updated unless you run it > >by hand. > > Perhaps run a script via cron occasionally, maybe every six hours > where six hours corresponds to 3:30. If /var/log/weekly.out is more > than, or exactly, a week old, run weekly. if /var/log/weekly.out is > less than a week old, only run /var/log/weekly if it's 3:30am on > Saturday.
+1. Cron jobs could be run more frequently IMHO, i.e. every 2-3 hrs, as cron is cheap and to make this work on infrequently used machines. /jkm
