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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday February 1 2009, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 01 February 2009 17:50:07 Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The daily regeneration of my locate database (the execution
> > of "updatedb") is occurring at an inopportune time and I'd like to
> > change it (this system runs 24/7).
> >
> > How can this be accomplished?
>
> A few possibilities, depending on which suse version you have.

Sorry, that was remiss of me. It's openSUSE 11.1.


> Something that will work on all versions, is to remove the script
> from /etc/cron.daily, put it someplace else, and add a separate entry
> for it in /etc/crontab
>
> Or, at least in later suse versions, you can edit /etc/sysconfig/cron
> and set DAILY_TIME to the time at which you want it to run, but this
> will then affect all jobs in cron.daily

Thanks (to both you and Pat). This sounds like the best approach.


> Anders


Randall Schulz
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